BJP's reaction to Rahul Gandhi's comments on EC fuels 'mistrust': Sharad Pawar

NCP SP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday claimed that BJP leaders routinely respond whenever Congress MP Rahul Gandhi questions the Election Commissions functioning fuelling mistrust in the poll panel reported news agency PTIResponding to a question on Rahul Gandhis criticism of the Election Commission of India over alleged vote chori Pawar said Gandhi and other Opposition leaders have raised key issues about the ECIs functioning reported PTIWhen Gandhi the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha raised the issue in Parliament the institution concerned should have taken note of it But what is happening is that when Gandhi raises questions and criticises the ECI the ECI does not answer it is the BJP and its leaders who respond he told reportersInstead of the Election Commission the chief minister and other leaders are responding to such issues the former Union minister notedBy doing this they are actually contributing to the mistrust about the ECI which is not good he addedSharpening his attack on the issue of vote chori vote theft Gandhi last week accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of protecting those who destroyed democracy reported PTITo buttress his allegation the leader of the opposition cited data from two assembly constituencies in Karnataka and Maharashtra where he claimed voters were deletedadded in a fraudulent mannerThe lecEtion Commission has dubbed the allegations as incorrect and baseless and said No deletion of any vote can be done online by any member of the public as misconceived by GandhiThis comes after Rahul Gandhi held a press conference in Delhi on September 18 and accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of protecting vote chors He further alleged that the CEC is fully aware of how fraud is happening in deleting and adding fake voters in the voter list He stated that he has 10 per cent proof that the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is protecting vote chors vote thievesThe Congress leader claimed that a certain group of people are systematically cutting the votes of minority groups who specifically vote for the CongressGandhi also claimed that there was an attempt to delete more than 6000 voters names from the Aland constituency in KarnatakaIn Aland Karnataka 6018 votes somebody tried to delete these votes We dont know the total number of votes deleted in the 2023 elections but somebody got caught It was caught by most crimes by coincidence What happened was that the Booth Level officer noticed that her uncles vote had been deleted the Congress MP saidWith inputs from PTI