Rahul Gandhi Tears into Election Commission of India, Alleges Massive Electoral Fraud in 2024 Lok Sabha Polls

New Delhi, Aug 7: Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the ruling BJP during a media briefing today, alleging large-scale voter fraud in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. 

Gandhi claimed the Congress party possesses concrete evidence of electoral manipulation, accusing the ECI of colluding with the BJP to rig the polls.

Brandishing a stack of documents, which he described as “seven feet of paper,” Gandhi detailed alleged discrepancies in voter lists, particularly in the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency. 

However, he remained evasive when asked if he would drag the Election Commission to court, saying his party’s aim is to make the country aware about the alleged large scale irregularities in the voter list. 

He cited the case of a woman, Shakun Rani, who purportedly registered and voted twice, and another individual, Gurkirat Singh Dang, whose name appeared multiple times across different polling booths. 

Gandhi presented figures from one assembly segment, claiming over 11,000 duplicate voters, 40,000 fake addresses, and more than 33,000 instances of misuse of Form 6, used for voter registration. “This is a crime being committed against the Indian Constitution, against the Indian flag,” Gandhi declared, emphasizing the scale of the alleged fraud.

Gandhi further alleged that the ECI deliberately provided voter lists in a non-machine-readable format, making it difficult to detect discrepancies. “When they gave us booth-wise paper voter lists, that document cannot be scanned. Why would the ECI copy-proof, scan-proof the voter lists?” he questioned, asserting that the Congress had uncovered evidence of more than one lakh fake voters in a single constituency after a six-month investigation.

The Congress leader reiterated his earlier claims from the Annual Legal Conclave on August 2, 2025, where he had described the evidence as an “atom bomb” that would expose the ECI’s complicity. 

He claimed the BJP secured a slim majority in 2024 by manipulating 25 seats with victory margins of less than 33,000 votes. “The Prime Minister needed to ‘steal’ only 25 seats to stay in power,” Gandhi stated, accusing the ECI of enabling this through inflated voter rolls and fake votes.

Gandhi also raised concerns about the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections, noting an unusual spike in voter turnout after 5 p.m. and an addition of 48.82 lakh voters in just five months between the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, compared to a 31 lakh increase over five years from 2019 to 2024. “In Maharashtra, our alliance was wiped out in the Vidhan Sabha, but in the Lok Sabha, we performed strongly. This discrepancy is not natural,” he said.