The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Karnataka on Thursday responded to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's fresh claims of "vote chori" in Aland constituency, stating that the poll body had already rejected all incorrect applications and an FIR was filed in the matter in 2023.
The Karnataka CEO said in a statement that the ERO in Aland received 6,018 online applications through Form 7 in December 2022. Given the large number of applications, the poll body verified each application out of which only 24 applications were found to be genuine and another 5,994 inco
After the Election Commission of India (ECI) dismissed his fresh allegations, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi urged the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to "stop giving excuses" and asked him to release the evidence to the Karnataka CID immediately.
Bharadwaj criticised Congress and Gandhi for "remaining silent" while similar discrepancies were highlighted by AAP during the Delhi Assembly elections in early 2025.
"CID probing the Aland AC voter deletion case, wrote 18 letters to ECISVEEP in 18 months, but ECI has stone-walled critical information necessary to track the culprits. Armed with concrete proof, Rahul Gandhi has thoroughly exposed the mass vote deletion in Aland Assembly in Karnataka," K
"February 2023 investigation is started, March 2023 Karnataka CID writes to ECI asking for all details. Incomplete details are given in August, with which no investigation can happen. Whatever was not needed was given, whatever was needed that was not given (by the Election Commission),"
"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 stateme
"We have started getting help from inside the Election Commission. I am making it clear that we are now getting information from inside the Election Commission, this was not happening before, but now we are getting information from inside Election Commission, and this is not going to stop