EC colluding with BJP to steal elections: Rahul Gandhi alleges 'massive' vote chori, cites Bangalore Central seat as example

Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged 'massive' voter fraud in electoral rolls and claimed that elections in India are being manipulated through 'Vote Chori' (vote theft).

Rahul was speaking at a press conference in Delhi, where he also presented data and polling analysis, accusing the poll body of colluding with the ruling BJP in many states.

If the EC does not give us machine-readable data for the past 10-15 years and the CCTV footage, they are partaking in the crime, Gandhi said.

"The judiciary needs to get involved in this because the democracy that we love so much does not exist," the former Congress president said.

He also alleged that Bangalore Central Lok Sabha seat, was an explamle of 'vote chori' where the Congress lost to the BJP by margin of less than 3 percentage points.

He said in the whole Lok Sabha seat, the Congress got 6,26,208 votes while the BJP got 6,58,915, a margin of 32,707.

Gandhi pointed out that while the Congress won six out of seven segments, it lost in the Mahadevapura Assembly segment in which it was defeated by over 1,14,000 votes.

He claimed there was "vote chori" of 1,00,250 votes in the constituency with 11,965 duplicate voters in one assembly segment, 40,009 voters with fake and invalid addresses, 10,452 bulk voters or single address voters, 4,132 voters with invalid photos and 33,692 voters misusing Form 6 of new voters.

Alleging that is being committed throughout the country, he said this is a "crime against the Indian Constitution and the Indian flag".

Gandhi said the Congress would like to remind the EC that it is in the business of protecting elections.

With PTI inputs