Rahul Gandhi claimed on Saturday that the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections were a “blueprint for rigging democracy”, drawing rebuke from BJP president JP Nadda, who accused the Congress leader of “cooking up bizarre conspiracies” in his desperation after losing a series of elections.

The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha alleged in a newspaper  article that this poll “match-fixing” would next happen in the Bihar elections and “anywhere the BJP is losing”. 

In a post on X, he said, “My article shows how this happened, step by step: Step 1: Rig the panel for appointing the Election Commission. Step 2: Add fake voters to the roll. Step 3: Inflate voter turnout. Step 4: Target the bogus voting exactly where the BJP needs to win. Step 5: Hide the evidence.”