Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has demanded a “clean and pure” electoral roll, warning that the issue of alleged “vote theft” will soon erupt into a nationwide controversy, far beyond a single constituency.
Speaking to reporters after participating in an Opposition protest march to the Election Commission (EC) on Monday, Gandhi accused the poll body of remaining “silent” despite being fully aware of the scale of the problem.
“This fight is not political, but for saving the Constitution. This fight is for ‘one man, one vote’ and we want a clean, pure voter list,” he asserted.
The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha reiterated his allegation that over one lakh votes in Karnataka’s Mahadevapura assembly segment were fake, citing a Congress study based entirely on data from the EC’s own website. “This is their data. It is not my data that I should sign. It is their data only and has been taken from their website. This is only a move to distract,” he said, signalling he would not provide a signed affidavit to the EC as requested.
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Gandhi further alleged the problem was widespread: “This has not just happened in Bangalore, but in different constituencies across the country, and the Election Commission knows this. The EC knows that this data will explode. What it is trying to control and hide, we will bring it out, and it will explode.”
The Congress leader, along with other MPs from the INDIA bloc, was briefly detained by police when the protest march from Parliament House to the EC headquarters was stopped midway. “They (EC) cannot talk as the truth is before the entire nation,” he remarked as he was taken away by bus.
On social media platform X, Gandhi declared: “The truth of ‘vote theft’ is now before the country. This fight is not political; it is a fight to protect democracy, the Constitution, and the right to ‘one person, one vote’. The united opposition and every voter in the country demand a clean and transparent voter list. And we will secure this right at all costs.”
Last week, Gandhi alleged that manipulation in Mahadevapura involved 11,965 duplicate voters, 40,009 with fake or invalid addresses, 10,452 bulk voters at a single address, 4,132 with invalid photographs, and 33,692 misusing Form 6 for new registrations.
The EC has yet to issue a detailed public response to these specific claims.
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