The Election Commission of India on Thursday, September 18, 2025, dubbed as incorrect and baseless the allegations made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi that CEC Gyanesh Kumar is protecting “vote chors”. File
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The Election Commission on Thursday (September 18, 2025) termed the allegations made by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar as “incorrect” and “baseless”.It also said that “no deletion of any voter can be done online by any member of public, as ‘misconceived’ by Mr. Gandhi”.Mr. Gandhi, at a press conference here, mounted a scathing attack on the CEC, accusing him of protecting those who were “destroying” Indian democracy by refusing to share technical details of the people who were behind an attempted voter deletion from an Assembly seat in Karnataka.A senior ECI official said that in “2023, certain unsuccessful attempts were made for deletion of electors in Aland Assembly Constituency in Karnataka and an FIR was filed by the authority of ECI itself to investigate the matter”.As per records, Aland Assembly Constituency was won by Subhadh Guttedar (BJP) in 2018 and BR Patil (INC) in 2023, he said.Recently, a newsbreak from The Hindu had reported on Karnataka CID’s probe into a systematic attempt to remove names of 5,994 voters from electoral rolls by forging Form 7, in the Aland Assembly constituency in Kalaburagi district, ahead of the 2023 Assembly polls. Published - September 18, 2025 01:02 pm IST
