'Chunaav ka chawkidaar' protected 'vote chors': Rahul Gandhi's dig at EC

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday reiterated his vote chori allegations and took a swipe at the Election Commission calling it an election watchman who stayed awake watched the theft and protected the thievesHis remarks came a day after he ramped up his attack on the issue of vote theft accusing Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of protecting those who destroyed democracyTo buttress his allegation he cited data from a Karnataka assembly constituency to claim that votes of Congress supporters were being systematically deletedThe Election Commission dubbed the allegations incorrect and baseless and said No deletion of any vote can be done online by any member of the public as misconceived by GandhiIn a post in Hindi on X on Friday Gandhi said Wake up at 4 am Eliminate two voters in 36 seconds Then go back to sleep this is how vote theft happens 4 36 2 VoteChoriFactory pictwittercompLSKAXH1Eumdash Rahul Gandhi RahulGandhi September 19 2025Chunaav ka chawkidaar jaagta raha chori dekhta raha choron ko bachata raha The election watchman stayed awake watched the theft and protected the thieves the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha chargedGandhi also shared a 36second video from his press conference in which he explains the modus operandi of the alleged vote theftIn a post on Thursday evening Gandhi had said The nations youth the nations students the nations Gen Z will defend the Constitution protect democracy and stop vote theft I always stand with them Jai HindIn his fresh offensive against the Election Commission Gandhi the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha had said Thursday that the poll panel must stop protecting vote chors and provide within a week information sought by the Karnataka CID in an investigation into voter deletionsIf not it will be known for sure that the poll body is complicit in the murder of the Constitution Gandhi alleged at his press conference at the Congress Indira Bhawan headquartersAnd this he said at the outset was not the hydrogen bomb revelations that he had promised That will happen soonGandhi cited details of alleged attempts to delete 6018 votes in Karnatakas Aland constituency in the run up to 2023 assembly polls He also gave the example of Maharashtras Rajura constituency where he claimed 6850 voters were added in a fraudulent manner using automated softwareSame system is doing this It is doing it in Karnataka Maharashtra it has done it in Haryana Uttar Pradesh Bihar and we have proof of it the Congress leader had allegedOur demand is Gyanesh Kumar do your job You have taken an oath you are Indias chief election commissioner you must give evidence to the Karnataka CID Gandhi had said directly taking on the CECHe had also asked the CEC to stop giving excuses and release evidence to the Karnataka CID immediatelyWith inputs from Agencies