Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference, in New Delhi on November 5, 2025.
| Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma
Leader of the Opposition (LOP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi dropped another major “vote theft” claim on Wednesday (November 5, 2025), alleging that there were 5.21 lakh duplicate voters in the electoral rolls ahead of the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections, which the BJP won. The Congress leader accused the Election Commission of India (EC) of colluding with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to destroy Indian democracy.
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The Congress MP held a press conference in New Delhi, during which he alleged that vote theft was happening “not just in constituency level, but at the State and national level”. Thousands of people associated with the BJP voted both in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, he claimed.
Mr. Gandhi said “Operation Sarkar Chori” was launched in Haryana to deny the Congress from coming to power. He claimed that despite all exit polls and opinion polls predicting that the Congress was headed towards a landslide win in Haryana, the party lost the elections through a “centralised operation” which allegedly created 25 lakh fake voters.
“The ECI does not want a fair election. This is absolutely clear proof of what the BJP is doing,” said Mr. Gandhi. “They (ECI) want to create space. [for fake votes] They are destroying CCTV footage.”
The Congress leader alleged that there were 1,24,177 voters with the same photo in Haryana.
“All polls pointed to a Congress victory in Haryana. The five top exit polls said the Congress is sweeping. The other thing that was surprising was that for the first time in Haryana, the postal votes were different from the result. In postal ballots, Congress got 73 seats while the BJP got 17 seats,” he said.
Asked if the party would seek legal recourse, he said, “The Supreme Court, the highest court of the country, is watching. We are not doing this in a private room”
Mr Gandhi called upon Gen Z and the youth to restore democracy through satya (truth) and ahimsa (non-violence).
“This system [vote theft] has been industrialised and we are pretty sure that they will do it in Bihar. You can ask why didn’t you detect then in the voters list of Bihar. That’s because the voters list comes last minute,” Mr Gandhi said.
Mr Gandhi started the press conference by playing out a video clip of Haryana Chief Minister Naib Singh Saini telling reporters that the BJP will win the Assembly and they (the BJP) have all the vyavasta (arrangements).
The Opposition leader also took on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar’s claim that house number “0” (Zero) is used for homeless people.
“Look at the voters’ list where Mr. Narender’s house is marked as 0. We physically looked for him in his village and found this as his house,” Mr. Gandhi said, showing a two-storeyed house.
Similarly, he showed addresses from the voters list that 501 bulk votes in just one house.
In August, Mr. Gandhi, citing data from the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, claimed that over one lakh votes were “stolen” through manipulation in Mahadevapura Assembly segment in Karnataka.
The Election Commission of India had, however, dubbed the charges as “incorrect and baseless” and asserted that no deletion of votes can happen without giving an opportunity of being heard to the affected person.
(With inputs from PTI)
Published – November 05, 2025 01:19 pm IST
