Congress to discuss nationwide campaign against 'election fraud' on Monday

New Delhi: Congress is planning a nationwide campaign against "voters list manipulation and election fraud" and has convened a meeting of party General Secretaries, state in-charges and heads of frontal organisations on Monday evening to discuss plans.

General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal has written to senior party functionaries asking them to be present at the meeting convened at 24, Akbar Road office on Monday at 4:30 pm.

Party chief Mallikarjun Kharge will preside over the meeting where the leaders will finetune the plans for launching a nationwide campaign against "voters list manipulation and election fraud".

The meeting comes close on the heels of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi holding a press conference on Thursday and accusing the Election Commission of colluding with the ruling BJP and claiming that around one lakh votes were "stolen" using fake voters in Mahadevapura Assembly segment during the Lok Sabha elections last year.

Kharge and Rahul also led a protest in Bengaluru on Friday while on Monday, I.N.D.I.A bloc MPs are set to march from Parliament to 'Nirvachan Sadan', the headquarters of the Election Commission, to protest against the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and other states.

Venugopal said on 'X', "just as Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi gave us the 'Do or Die' call during the Quit India movement, we today must embark upon a similar do-or-die mission to save Indian democracy."

To discuss the party’s further nationwide campaign against voter list manipulation and election fraud "as exposed by" Rahul, he said a meeting of senior functionaries would be held.

He also said state Congress committees will screen Rahul's press conference at state headquarters "to expose the BJP–ECI nexus in this electoral fraud".