New Delhi: The Congress on Friday announced that it will hold a rally on December 14 at Ramlila Maidan here, against the alleged “vote chori”.
It alleged that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is now a “blatantly partisan player” that is “destroying” the very concept of a level-playing field for all political parties during elections.
Congress General Secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal said the spectre of “vote chori” is the biggest danger looming over our democracy today.
“We have received crores of signatures from every corner of India, rejecting the BJP-ECI’s nefarious tactics like adding bogus voters, deleting opposition-inclined voters, and manipulating voter rolls at a mass scale,” Venugopal said in a post on X.
Venugopal alleged that the Election Commission of India (ECI), meant to be a neutral umpire, “is now a blatantly partisan player – destroying the very concept of a level playing field in elections”.
The Delhi rally will be an entirely Congress effort as the party wants to showcase its door-to-door signature campaign, which it started after Gandhi’s first press conference on alleged vote chori in one of the Assembly segments in Karnataka’s Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency.
Ahead of the rally, State units are handing over the signatures collected so far to the All India Congress Committee (AICC). On Thursday, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and AICC general secretary for Punjab, Bhupesh Baghel, handed over a document with 27 lakh signatures from Punjab to Venugopal.
However, party leaders denied that this is a sign that regional parties, which are constituents of the Opposition INDIA bloc, are seeking to distance themselves from the Congress after its debacle in the Bihar election.
“But INDIA is stronger than their noise, INDIA will win — with truth, with people, with hope,” Manickam Tagore, the Congress whip in the Lok Sabha, said in a post on X.
