New Delhi – In a fiery press conference at the AICC headquarters, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of conspiring with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to manipulate the outcome of the 2024 general elections. Citing a detailed analysis from Karnataka’s Bangalore Central constituency, Gandhi claimed this amounts to a “crime against the Constitution.”
Presenting data from Mahadevapura, a key Assembly segment within Bangalore Central, Gandhi alleged large-scale electoral fraud, claiming a “vote chori” (vote theft) of 1,00,250 votes. “In a seat where Congress secured 6,26,208 votes and BJP got 6,58,915, the margin was just 32,707. Yet in Mahadevapura alone, Congress trailed by over 1,14,000 votes,” he stated.
He further broke down the alleged manipulation, highlighting 11,965 duplicate voters, 40,009 voters with fake or invalid addresses, 10,452 single-address (bulk) voters, 4,132 voters with invalid photos, and 33,692 voters misusing Form 6 used for new registrations.
“If the Election Commission refuses to provide machine-readable voter data and CCTV footage from polling stations, it becomes complicit in the crime,” Gandhi said, calling upon the judiciary to intervene. He added, “The democracy we love so much does not exist right now. The EC is supposed to protect elections, not sabotage them.”
Rahul Gandhi also accused the BJP of avoiding anti-incumbency through manipulation, stating, “Every party faces anti-incumbency, except the BJP. There’s a reason behind that.” He pointed out that 25 of the BJP’s Lok Sabha seats were won with margins below 33,000 votes. “Modi needed just 25 seats to hold on to power—and they were stolen.”
He questioned the credibility of modern elections, noting how both exit polls and internal surveys often contradict final results. “Today’s elections feel choreographed. They stretch over months unlike earlier times when polls were conducted in a unified, swift process.”
The Congress, Gandhi said, spent six months gathering what he described as “concrete evidence” of electoral fraud. He also accused the EC of attempting to “destroy” proof of the alleged wrongdoing across the country.
Calling for urgent electoral reform and transparency, Gandhi warned, “The foundation of our Constitution is ‘one person, one vote.’ This manipulation strikes at the heart of Indian democracy.”
