Investigate ‘vote theft’ charges

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has intensified his campaign against alleged vote theft by the poll panel and has accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of protecting the ‘destroyers of democracy.

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A month after the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha dropped the ‘atom bomb’ of alleged vote fraud by showing ‘proof’ of selective addition and deletion of voters in the Mahadevapura constituency in Karnataka during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he has now asserted that over 6000 deletion applications in Karnataka’s Aland assembly constituency were filed by impersonators using centralised software, targeting the Congress ahead of the 2018 assembly elections. Rahul may not have dropped the promised ‘hydrogen bomb’ as yet, but his campaign against the EC continues apace. Claiming that Dalits, OBCs, minorities and those who traditionally voted for the Opposition were targeted, he said fake logins had been created to request the deletion of voters from a few booths in Aland and the addition of voters i