New Delhi, Sep 18: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of protecting “vote chors” and individuals who are undermining Indian democracy. Speaking at a press conference at the Congress’ Indira Bhawan headquarters, Gandhi cited data from Karnataka’s Aland Assembly constituency, alleging systematic deletion of Congress supporters’ votes ahead of elections.
Gandhi urged the Election Commission to provide information sought by the Karnataka CID within a week as part of its investigation into voter deletions. He claimed that 6,018 voter deletion attempts were detected in Aland, executed through automated software using mobile numbers from outside Karnataka. Gandhi highlighted that booth-level officers caught some of these deletions, demonstrating that a larger operation was targeting millions of voters across India.
“This is not the hydrogen bomb yet; more revelations are coming,” Gandhi said, reiterating his earlier warnings about exposing large-scale “vote chori” manipulations. He also cited Maharashtra’s Rajura constituency, alleging fraudulent addition of voters using similar automated processes.
Gandhi called on stage individuals whose votes were targeted, who confirmed they had no knowledge of the deletion attempts. He accused the Election Commission of shielding those responsible and claimed that failure to provide CID-requested information—such as IP addresses and OTP trails—was effectively defending “murderers of democracy.”
Earlier, Gandhi had labeled similar revelations from Mahadevapura constituency in Karnataka as an “atom bomb on our democracy,” and said the upcoming disclosures would be a “hydrogen bomb” that would expose widespread electoral manipulation.