Rahul Gandhi Slams ECI, Accuses It of Acting as a ‘BJP Agent’
Escalating his attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI), Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, charged the poll body with acting as an "agent of the BJP" during a protest at Freedom Park. Holding up the Constitution, he emphasized its core principle of "one person, one vote", asserting that this foundational democratic value is now under threat.
Addressing the protest, Gandhi presented five pointed questions to the ECI, insisting they demand answers instead of issuing threats:
- Why are voter rolls not being shared in a machine-readable digital format?
- On whose orders is CCTV and video evidence being destroyed following elections?
- Why has massive voter list fraud been allowed to persist?
- Why is the ECI intimidating opposition instead of addressing their concerns?
- Lastly, "has the ECI become an agent of the BJP?"
Gandhi also highlighted an alleged anomaly in Maharashtra, where Congress won the Lok Sabha polls but lost the state assembly vote, despite one crore voters—who had abstained previously—turning up in the next round—an inconsistency he found suspicious.
Internally, Congress's probe in Mahadevapura revealed five types of alleged “vote theft”: duplicate entries, invalid addresses, missing or poor-quality photos, implausibly high concentrations of new voters at single addresses, and a large number of first-time voters aged 80–90. Gandhi claimed a total of 100,000 votes were “stolen” through these means.
