Rahul Gandhi on ‘Vote Theft’ | More Election Examples Shared

Rahul Gandhi on ‘Vote Theft’: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday called the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls as an "institutionalised chori" and said the Election Commission is "openly colluding" with the BJP to carry out this "theft" to take away the voting rights of the poor.

In a video on his YouTube channel, Gandhi claimed that SIR has been brought in Bihar because the EC knows "we have caught their chori".

He also spoke about the ongoing SIR in Bihar, due for polls in October-November. “That's institutional theft. The EC wants to help the BJP, clearly, by recasting the electoral rolls,” he said.

“Vote chori (theft) is not just an electoral scam; it is a major betrayal committed against the Constitution and democracy. Let the nation's culprits hear this: times will change, punishment will surely be meted out,” his post, in Hindi, said, a day after he held a livecast in which he made a presentation detailing the allegations.

Vote Chori सिर्फ़ एक चुनावी घोटाला नहीं, ये संविधान और लोकतंत्र के साथ किया गया बड़ा धोखा है।

देश के गुनहगार सुन लें - वक़्त बदलेगा, सज़ा ज़रूर मिलेगी। pic.twitter.com/tR7wh589fN

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) August 8, 2025

EC has already asked him to share under oath what he called evidence.

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“My word is an oath,” Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, retorted on Thursday. Asking the EC to check its own data, he said, “I have said everything in public. And I have cited EC's data.”

He showed what he termed examples of thousands of fake votes, registered without real addresses or in bulk at one; and people having votes multiple times. Bangalore Central Lok Sabha segment was illustrative of this, he claimed.

“The truth is that in India, the EC and the BJP are colluding to steal elections. The entire evidence is before everyone in black and white,” Gandhi says.

“They know that we have caught their ‘chori’ and that is why SIR (Special Intensive Revision) has come. SIR is an institutionalised chori. EC is openly colluding with the BJP to carry out this theft. SIR’s objective is to take away the voting rights of the poor,” he further charged.

“In this investigation we have looked only at voter addition. But probably the number of voter deletions is much more than voter additions,” he adds.

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“We have caught just one method, we have not probed other methods. I am telling the EC and its officials clearly that what you are doing is not right. This is treason against the country,” Gandhi says, reiterating his warning to the officials.

Gandhi spoke about Madhya Pradesh where the party won in 2018. He said the Congress government was stolen later and during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, he felt tremendous anti-incumbency against the BJP rule.

“But in 2023, we only got 65 seats. This is impossible. Then came Maharashtra and we got our evidence for the first time. New voters emerged through magic between the Lok Sabha and assembly polls. Wherever these new voters voted their vote went to the BJP,” he claims.

“When we had doubts we did a press conference along with our alliance partner leaders. We asked EC to give us the voter list and video recording. They neither gave us the voter list nor the video recording which raised doubts. It raised the question in our mind as to whether the EC is helping the BJP. Is the EC indulging in stealing elections? We set up a team and asked them to find out the truth,” Gandhi says in the video.

He pointed out that EC does not give digital data but physical data which means lakhs of papers have to be examined physically.

The reason EC does not give digital data is that if it does so, its reality would be out, Gandhi claims.

Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer on Thursday asked Gandhi to share the names of electors he claimed were either included or excluded wrongfully from the voters’ list of the state along with a signed declaration for the poll authorities to initiate “necessary proceedings”.

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