EC calls Rahul Gandhi’s ‘vote chori’ allegations incorrect, baseless

The Election Commission of India on Thursday dismissed all allegations made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi regarding vote chori mentioning that no voters name can be deleted by a member of the public through onlineThe Election Commission dubbed as incorrect and baseless the allegations made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi that CEC Gyanesh Kumar is protecting vote chorsAllegations made by Rahul Gandhi are incorrect and baseless No deletion of any vote can be done online by any member of the public as misconceived by Rahul Gandhi No deletion can take place without giving an opportunity to be heard to the affected person the ECI said in a statementAllegations made by Shri Rahul Gandhi are incorrect and baselessECIFactCheckRead in detail in the image attached httpstcomhuUtciMTF pictwittercomn30Jn6AeCrmdash Election Commission of India ECISVEEP September 18 2025The ECI also said that allegations made by Rahul Gandhi against CEC Gyanesh Kumar are baseless and incorrectEarlier in a press conference at the Congress headquarters the leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha had claimed that he has 10 per cent proof that the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is protecting vote chors vote thievesHe said that a group of people is using a centralised method through software impersonating real voters and deleting their names from the voter lists However the poll body has said that in 2023 certain unsuccessful attempts were made to delete certain votes and a complaint was filed on the order of the ECI itselfIn 2023 certain unsuccessful attempts were made for the deletion of electors in Aland Assembly Constituency and an FIR was filed by the authority of ECI itself to investigate the matter the poll body saidThe ECI pointed out that the Congress leader BR Patil won the assembly elections from Aland in 2023 while the BJPs Subadh Guttedar won in 2018Earlier in the press conference Rahul Gandhi alleged that there was an attempt to delete more than 6 thousand 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 he saidThe Opposition parties have been repeatedly claiming that the Election Commission of India colluding with the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP is deleting and adding fraudulent votes in the voter rolls in various elections The Congress leader has claimed that fraud has taken place in the Maharashtra Assembly elections and also in various assembly segments including in Karnatakas Mahadevpura segmentWith inputs from Agencies