Rahul Gandhi alleges systemic vote deletions in Congress booths

Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a fresh offensive on the Election Commission of India, claiming that votes were being deleted from the Congress booths through fake logins done through a ‘centralised system’. However, he remained evasive on questions of following it up with the ECI or taking legal recourse for the ‘irregularities and wrongdoings’ under the watch of the poll panel.

On an IANS question whether the party will move court



over illegal deletion of votes, the Congress leader averted a direct reply and said he was a committed soldier of democracy and would always strive to uphold the constitutional values.

Notably, this was Rahul Gandhi’s second special press conference in recent months, where he questioned the sanctity of the electoral process and claimed voter deletions in Congress booths in Karnataka’s Aland. A month ago, he claimed ‘votes were stolen’ in the Mahadevpura Assembly constituency.