Overview

• At a press conference in New Delhi, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala accused Rahul Gandhi of maligning constitutional institutions and questioned his conduct as leader of the opposition.
• In the Financial Times interview, Gandhi said Indian democracy is under siege from systematic vote-rigging and described a strategy of building public pressure through mass mobilisation.
• Poonawala called Gandhi a "Leader of Propaganda," mocked an "EMI" mindset, attacked a "hit and run" approach to allegations, and derided the Congress and its working committee with new labels.
• BJP spokesperson Rohan Gupta said Congress keeps shifting goalposts, citing the Karnataka Aland case where a claim of 6,018 deleted votes was later framed as an attempt, and asked why the state CID has not received evidence despite the EC’s clarification.
• After Gandhi highlighted a new EC e-sign feature and pressed the CEC on providing evidence to Karnataka CID, the BJP said the state CEO has already shared available information with police and urged Gandhi to explain conflicting posts on the Aland deletions.