`Taken oath on Constitution,’ Rahul Gandhi hits out at ECI for asking him to sign declaration

AICC leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday hit out at the election commission of India (ECI) for demanding a declaration on oath of voters added/deleted saying he has already taken the “oath of the Constitution in Parliament”. Gandhi has alleged that the ECI engineered these manipulations to help the BJP.

His angry reaction at a protest rally in Bengaluru followed letters from the chief electoral officers (CEOs) of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Haryana, asking for a signed declaration of the names of ineligible voters added to and eligible voters deleted from the electoral rolls.

Today, when the people of the country are asking questions about our data, the ECI has shut down its website as it knows that if the public starts questioning, its entire structure will collapse, Gandhi said, kicking off his nationwide protest against the ECI.


Gandhi demanded an answer from the ECI as to why it was not sharing electronic data and videography. The BJP and the ECI were jointly attacking the Constitution. “If they think they will get away with attacking the Constitution, they are mistaken.”

Modi stole votes

Modi became the PM by “stealing votes.” If the ECI shared the electronic voter list of the entire country and videography records of polls, the Congress would prove that seats were stolen across the country and Modi became the PM, the AICC leader said.

The BJP, he said, won the Bangalore Central LS seat last year, after the EC struck tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls. “It took us six months to uncover the truth with about one seat. If the EC does not provide us with the data, we can do the same for the remaining seats as well.”

Gandhi, who is also the leader of the Opposition, said a poll in Karnataka indicated that the Congress was getting 15-16 seats in line with his own party’s assessment. But the party won only nine seats which made them ask if they had really lost those seats. They queried the ECI but got no help, he said.

Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra told the media in Delhi that her brother had made such a big revelation which needed to be investigated. The ECI, she said, was not providing the voter list, nor investigating but was instead demanding an affidavit. “We are continuously showing data, but why is the Commission not ready to accept its own data? From the kind of statements coming from the BJP and the ECI, one thing is clear: there is massive fraud happening.”

Missing Names: Gandhi asks Siddaramaiah to probe

Gandhi asked chief minister Siddaramaiah to probe the `vote theft’ in Mahadevapura assembly segment as it caused the loss of one LS seat for the Congress.

He urged the CM to question the ECI officials and uncover the truth about the assembly segment, while addressing a protest rally in Bengaluru.

The data the Congress extracted in Karnataka is evidence of crime. It took the party six months to extract this data. “We checked every single name, matched every single photo with millions of photos. We believe that the election data is evidence. If someone has destroyed it, it means they are erasing evidence.”

In the assembly segment that falls in Bangalore Central LS seat, there were 6.5 lakh votes, and out of them, 1,00,250 votes were stolen. Which suggested the BJP stole one out of every six votes, he said.