Rahul Gandhi alleged in a press conference on Thursday that some group of people have been targeting millions of voters for deletion across India.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed he had uncovered a massive voter deletion scam targeting millions across India, but stopped short of dropping the promised “hydrogen bomb” of evidence on his “vote chori” (theft) allegations, saying preparations were underway for that. Rahul Gandhi gave a one-week deadline to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to respond to his allegations.
Rahul Gandhi said in his much-publicised press conference on Thursday that “some” group of people have been targeting millions of voters for deletion across India. Rahul Gandhi went on to explain how the mass deletion of voters is being attempted, saying he has found 100 per cent proof of it.
“Not going to say anything on this stage that is not backed up by 100 per cent proof,” Rahul Gandhi said but later added that the hydrogen bomb was yet to come.
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-Deletion of votes: Rahul Gandhi cited example of Aland constituency in Karnataka to claim that someone tried to delete 6,018 votes. “We don’t know the number total number of votes that were deleted in Aland… It is much higher than 6,018. But somebody got caught. And it was caught like most crimes by a coincidence,” Rahul Gandhi alleged.
‘Godabai’ has no idea’: Alleging that these deletion attempts were specifically targetting booths where the Congress party was winning, Rahul Gandhi cited an example of a woman called ‘Godabai’. Rahul Gandhi claimed someone created fake logins in the name of Godabai, attempted to delete 12 voters. “Godabai has no idea,” Rahul Gandhi said.
Cellphones from outside: Sharing cellphone numbers used to delete voters, Rahul Gandhi said the numbers were not from Karnataka but from different states. As Rahul Gandhi made the claims, slides of “evidence” played on a screen in the background. “The question is, whose numbers are these and how were they operated, who generated the OTPs?” Rahul Gandhi said.
-Rahul brings example on stage: Citing “Example 2”, Rahul Gandhi shared a gentleman called Suryakant “apparently deleted 12 voters in 14 minutes.” “Babita Choudhari is one of the votes that he is supposed to have deleted,” Rahul Gandhi said and made both Suryakant and Babita Choudhari come to the stage.
‘2 forms filled in 38 seconds’ Sharing another example of a person called Nagaraj, Rahul Gandhi showed in the presentation how two forms were filled within 38 seconds at 4:07 am, calling it “humanly impossible”. Please try and fill these forms and see how long it takes you… and I ask the youth of India, you’ll see the answer to these questions,” Rahul Gandhi said.
-‘Done at call centre level’: “Someone” ran an automated programme that ensured the first voter of the booth was the applicant, Rahul Gandhi alleged further in the press conference, adding that cellphones from outside the state were used in the operation done in a “centralised manner”. It was done at a call centre level, it was a planned operation, Rahul Gandhi claimed.
Accusations on CEC Gyanesh Kumar: Coming to why he was making such a direct accusation about chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Rahul Gandhi said, “The Karnataka CID has sent as many as 18 reminder letters to the Election Commission over the last year and a half, the last one dated September 2025, seeking information linked to the alleged voter deletion scam, the Congress leader claims.” Despite repeated appeals, officials say no substantive response has come from the poll body, he added.
‘Karnataka CID wrote to EC 18 times’: The correspondence began in February 2023, followed by further reminders in March 2023, August 2023 and January 2024. Since then, the investigation has effectively stalled, with the EC not sharing the data sought by investigators, Rahul Gandhi said during the interaction. “The chief election commissioner of India is protecting the people who have destroyed Indian democracy. Karnataka CID has written to the EC 18 times in 18 months for information on this (voter deletion), but they are not giving the information,” Rahul Gandhi said.
-‘Sasti’ as voter’s address: In Rajura assembly of Maharashtra, 6,850 fake online additions were done, Rahul Gandhi said, showing in the presentation unusual voter name ‘YUH UQJJW’ and address reading ‘Sasti, Sasti’. Asking “who is this someone”, Rahul Gandhi said the same system is being used for addition and deletion of voters in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Bihar, has been done in Haryana, done in Uttar Pradesh. “Basic idea is the same… phones from outside… people don’t know they have added or deleted voters,” Rahul Gandhi alleged.
One-week deadline to CEC: Rahul Gandhi demanded that Gyanesh Kumar must release evidence to Karnataka CID within a week, asking him to stop protecting vote “chors” (thieves). “We have given you 100 per cent bulletproof proof here. EC has to release data of these phones, OTPs within a week, otherwise we will know for sure that Gyanesh Kumar is protecting the people who are destroying and attacking the constitution,” Rahul Gandhi said and concluded the presser saying the ‘H-bomb’ will come shortly.
Rahul Gandhi’s earlier presser
This is the second press conference in the “vote chori” allegation series of Rahul Gandhi, who in the first presser on August 7 accused the Election Commission (EC) of colluding with the BJP to enable vote theft, claiming the EC was part of a systemic manipulation.
In the August 7 press conference, Rahul Gandhi had said that after six months of study by a 40‑person team, Congress had uncovered large‑scale irregularities in the electoral rolls of the Mahadevapura assembly segment in Karnataka, part of Bengaluru Central.
Rahul Gandhi alleged over 1,00,000 bogus voter entries in that constituency. as well as other anomalies like thousands of fake voters, unusual father names, house numbers, destruction of CCTV footage, and refusal by the EC to share voter-related data.
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