To buttress his allegation, Rahul Gandhi cited data from a Karnataka assembly constituency to claim that votes of Congress supporters were being systematically deleted. The Election Commission, however, dubbed the allegations “incorrect and baseless,” stating, “No deletion of any vote can be done online by any member of the public, as misconceived by Gandhi.”

In a post in Hindi on X on Friday, Gandhi wrote:
“Wake up at 4 a.m. Eliminate two voters in 36 seconds, then go back to sleep. This is how vote theft happens!
Chunaav ka chawkidaar jaagta raha, chori dekhta raha, choron ko bachata raha
(The election watchman stayed awake, watched the theft, and protected the thieves),” charged the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.

Gandhi also shared a 36-second video from his press conference, where he explains the modus operandi of the alleged “vote theft.”

Earlier, on Thursday evening, Gandhi had posted, “The nation’s youth, the nation’s students, the nation’s Gen Z, will defend the Constitution, protect democracy, and stop vote theft. I always stand with them. Jai Hind!”

In a fresh offensive against the Election Commission, Gandhi demanded the poll panel stop protecting “vote chors” and provide, within a week, information sought by the Karnataka CID in an investigation into voter deletions. He warned that if the Election Commission did not comply, it would be clear that the poll body was complicit in the “murder of the Constitution.”

During his press conference at the Congress’
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