Rahul in voter deletion charge

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday escalated his campaign against alleged "voter fraud", this time accusing the Election Commission of shielding those responsible for mass voter deletions in Karnataka's Aland assembly constituency.

- Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters, Gandhi claimed that 6,018 voter deletion applications were auto-filed using software and mobile numbers from outside the state, ahead of the assembly polls. These deletions, he alleged, specifically targeted Congress voters and booths where the party was winning. insisted. "We have our people inside the EC, and we are now receiving information from within about 'vote theft'," Gandhi said.