'BJP turning Election Commission into vote theft machinery': Stalin backs Rahul Gandhi over 'chori' allegations

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin on Monday came out strongly in support of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations against the Election Commission of India (ECI), asserting that his party will not stand silent while the BJP “robs” the country’s democracy in broad daylight.

Stalin alleged that the BJP has turned the ECI into its poll rigging machinery and claimed that what transpired in Bengaluru's Mahadevapura assembly constituency was not an administrative lapse but a deliberate conspiracy to steal the people’s mandate.

“The vote theft evidence presented by my brother and Leader of Opposition Thiru Rahul Gandhi exposes the scale of this fraud. We demand the immediate release of complete machine-readable voter rolls for every state, an end to politically driven deletions, and an independent probe into this subversion of our democracy,” he said.

The DMK chief declared that his party stands shoulder to shoulder in this fight and will not watch silently while the BJP robs India’s democracy in broad daylight.