New Delhi: The Election Commission of India on September 18 dismissed all allegations made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi regarding “vote chori”, mentioning that no voter’s name can be deleted by a member of the public through online.
“Allegations 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 deleting can take palce without giving an opportunity of being heard to the affected person,” the ECI said in a statement.
❌Allegations made by Shri Rahul Gandhi are incorrect and baseless.#ECIFactCheck
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— Election Commission of India (@ECISVEEP) September 18, 2025
The ECI also said that allegations made by Rahul Gandhi against CEC Gyanesh Kumar are baseless and incorrect.
Earlier 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 thieves).”
Sun be Rahul Ghandy, ECI gives sh!t to ur THREATS!
"Some alleged double voting. WHEN ASKED FOR PROOF, NO ANSWER WAS GIVEN. ECI IS NOT AFRAID OF SUCH FALSE ALLEGATIONS. Politics is being done to target voters by keeping a gun on shoulder of ECI, we FEARLESSLY stand like a rock" pic.twitter.com/bpPC2ncyD3
— BhikuMhatre (@MumbaichaDon) August 17, 2025
He said that a group of people is using a centralised method through software and 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 ECI itself.
“In 2023, certain unsuccessful attempts were made for 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 said.
The ECI pointed out the Congress leader BR Patil won the assembly elections from Aland in 2023, while BJP’s Subadh Guttedar won in 2018.
Earlier in the press conference, Rahul Gandhi alleged that there was ana attempt to delete more than 6 thousand voters names from the Aland constituency in Karnataka.
“In Aland, Karnataka, 6018 votes, somebody tried to delete these votes. We don’t know the total number of votes deleted in 2023 elections, but somebody got caught. It was caught, by most crimes, by a coincidence. What happened was that the Booth Level officer noticed that her uncle’s vote has been deleted,” he said.
(With inputs from ANI)
