EC rejects Rahul Gandhi's allegations of vote theft, calls them 'baseless and irresponsible'

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday firmly rejected Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s serious accusations of widespread voter fraud, labelling them as "baseless" and "irresponsible."

Responding to Gandhi's statements, the Commission said, "The Election Commission ignores such baseless allegations made every day and, despite the repeated threats, urges all election officials who are working fairly and transparently to disregard such irresponsible remarks."

Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, had earlier alleged that the ECI was directly involved in facilitating vote theft. Citing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process recently conducted in Bihar, he claimed that the Commission's actions were designed to favour the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

"Votes are being



stolen. We have clear and irrefutable proof that the Election Commission is complicit in this vote theft. I’m not making this claim lightly. We have 100 per cent evidence. And once we make it public, the whole country will see how the Election Commission is enabling vote theft, and who are they doing it for? The BJP," Gandhi told reporters.

The Congress leader stated that his party had conducted an independent investigation into the alleged voter fraud after receiving no cooperation from the Election Commission.

“We suspected voter theft and decided to investigate it thoroughly. Since the Election Commission was uncooperative, we launched our own probe. It took six months, and what we uncovered is like an ‘atom bomb’. When this atom bomb goes off, the Election Commission will be nowhere to be seen in the country,” Gandhi said.