The Election Commission of India termed Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of mass voter deletions in Karnataka’s Aland constituency as “incorrect and baseless,” stressing that no deletion can happen online and every process follows legal safeguards with full transparency.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) countered Rahul Gandhi’s recent claim regarding “voter deletion,” asserting that all allegations made by the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha are “incorrect and baseless.”
In his latest statement, Gandhi claimed that voters, particularly from Congress-affiliated booths and communities, were removed using software. He specifically mentioned that over 6,000 votes had been deleted in the Aland constituency of Karnataka.
The ECI responded, stating,
“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.”
The Commission further noted that in 2023, there were unsuccessful attempts to delete electors in the Aland Assembly constituency, prompting the ECI to file an FIR to investigate the situation. According to their records, the Aland Assembly constituency was won by Subhadh Guttedar (BJP) in 2018 and BR Patil (Congress) in 2023.
Rahul Gandhi alleged that in the Aland Assembly constituency of Karnataka, around 6,018 names were wrongly removed from the voters’ list, and he claimed this was only a small part of a much bigger pattern of deletions. He said that false applications were filed by impersonating genuine voters and that the entire process was run through a centralised, software-based system instead of by individual persons.
According to him, the software was programmed in such a way that it automatically picked the first name from each booth for deletion, and mobile numbers from outside Karnataka were used to submit these fake requests.
He further pointed to some specific examples, including what he described as the “Curious case of Godabai”, to show that fraudulent login IDs were used for carrying out deletions.
He also raised concerns about unusual patterns in the process, such as 12 deletion requests being made within 14 minutes and applications being submitted at odd hours, including in the early morning.
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