Rahul Gandhi accuses EC of 'vote theft' for BJP, claims they have 100% proof

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday continued his assault on the Election Commission, alleging that it is indulging in "vote theft" for the BJP and claiming that his party has "open-and-shut" evidence for it.

Talking to reporters outside Parliament, the Congress leader said, "We now have an open-and-shut case that the EC is involved in vote theft. I am not saying this lightly. I am saying this with 100 per cent proof. When we release it, the entire country will come to know that the EC is doing vote theft. The EC is doing it for the BJP. This is an open-and-shut case."

Gandhi said the poll irregularities were like an "atom bomb", and when it would explode, the Election Commission would have no place to hide.

"I have said 'vote theft' is happening, and now we have open-and-shut proof that the EC is involved in 'vote theft'," Gandhi told reporters in the Parliament House complex.

He said his party had suspicion of poll irregularities in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls last year, then in the Lok Sabha polls, and this continued in Maharashtra.

"We believe vote theft has happened at the state level (in Maharashtra). Voter revision happened, and crores of voters were added. Then we went into detail, seeing that the EC is not helping, and decided to dig deep into this," he said.

"We got our own investigation done; it took six months, and what we have found is an atom bomb. When it explodes, the EC would have no place to hide," Gandhi said.

The Congress leader also warned that those people in the EC who are involved, from top to bottom, should remember that they will not be spared because they are "working against India".

"This is treason, nothing less than that. You may be retired; you may be anywhere; we will find you," Gandhi said.

The Congress leader's remarks came after he, along with leaders of several opposition parties, wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, urging him to schedule a special discussion on the ongoing voter list revision in Bihar without further delay.

In their letter to Birla, the opposition MPs expressed deep concern over the Special Intensive Revision exercise in Bihar, especially a few months before the state assembly election.