Rahul Gandhi of the Congress leader on Thursday introduced a sharp attack on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, implicating him of siding with forces weakening Indian democracy and protecting those supposedly associated with vote theft.
< source media ="(max-width:767px)" alt ="Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar addresses a press conference(PTI file)" title ="Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar addresses a press conference(PTI file)"> < img src ="https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2025/09/18/550x309/PTI08-17-2025-000201A-0_1758174844149_1758174865481.jpg"alt ="Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar addresses a press conference(PTI file)"title ="Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar addresses a press conference(PTI file)"> “This is another turning point in establishing and showing to the youth of this nation how elections are being rigged. I am going to make a strong claim about CEC Gyanesh Kumar. I am going to reveal individuals of India evidence that is black and white and definitely clear that the EC of India is securing those who have actually ruined Indian democracy. I am likewise going to reveal you the technique by which votes are being included and erased and how that’s done,” Rahul Gandhi declared at a press interaction, intensifying the Opposition’s continuous criticism of the Election Commission.
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“Gyanesh Kumar ji vote-choro ki raksha kar rahe hai. This is black and white proof. There is no confusion in this,” declared the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
When asked how Gyanesh Kumar is taking advantage of all this, Rahul Ganhi responded, “Frankly, what I am doing here is not my task. My work is to take part in a democratic procedure, the job of safeguarding India’s democracy is that of the nation’s organizations. Since they are not doing it, I am having to. When we end up all our discussions, there will be no doubt in your minds that mention after state, there has actually been vote chori in elections.”
The Congress MP included that the celebration has actually begun getting assistance from within the election commisson. “We are getting details from inside the EC. This will not stop. Individuals of India will decline this (vote chori),” he declared.
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Gandhi stated the election commission should stop this and supply within a week details looked for by the Karnataka CID in an examination into citizen removals.
He likewise made it clear at the start that these were not the “hydrogen bomb” of discoveries that he had actually guaranteed, and those will come quickly.
Gandhi mentioned information of declared efforts to erase votes from Karnataka’s Aland constituency in 2023. He likewise mentioned the example of Maharashtra’s Rajura constituency where he declared citizens were included a deceitful way utilizing automated software application.
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“I am the leader of opposition and I will not say anything which is not backed by 100 per cent proof,” Gandhi stated.
In Karnataka’s Aland, somebody attempted to erase 6,018 votes and got captured by coincidence, he stated, declaring that names of citizens of the Congress were being erased methodically.
“The booth-level officer noticed that her uncle’s vote got deleted and found her neighbour had deleted the vote of her uncle. She asked her neighbour who said he had no idea. It was found that some other force hijacked the process and deleted the vote — and as luck would have it got caught,” Gandhi stated.
He declared that 6,018 applications were submitted impersonating citizens and this filing was done instantly utilizing mobile numbers from outdoors Karnataka.
Gandhi likewise got in touch with phase a citizen whose vote was tried to be erased and the individual whose name was utilized to get the removal done. Both rejected any understanding of the very same.
He stated these removals were being done utilizing a software application.
Keeping in mind that there is a continuous examination in Karnataka, Gandhi stated the CID has actually sent out 18 letters in 18 months to the Election Commission and has actually requested some extremely easy truths such as the location IP from where these applications were filled and OTP routes.
They are not providing it due to the fact that it will lead us to where this operation is being carried out, Gandhi declared.
Resolving the concluding occasion of his Voter Adhikar Yatra on September 1, Gandhi had actually stated his celebration will quickly bring out a “hydrogen bomb” of discoveries about “vote chori” and after that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not have the ability to reveal his face to the nation.
Last month, Gandhi, pointing out information from the 2024 Lok Sabha surveys, declared that over one lakh votes were “taken” through adjustment in Mahadevapura assembly section in Karnataka, and asserted that “vote chori” is an “atom bomb on our democracy”