Overview
- Punjab Congress dispatched 26,30,845 signed forms to the party’s Delhi office under the “Vote chor, gaddi chhor” campaign, with senior leaders flagging off the shipment from the PPCC headquarters.
- Kerala Congress leaders reported about 14 lakh signatures collected and said roughly 15 lakh letters from the state will be sent to the Election Commission, with dispatches from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode.
- AICC general secretary KC Venugopal said the party has collected over five crore signatures nationwide, to be presented at a Ramlila Maidan event and forwarded to the President.
- Congress frames the drive as a response to Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of counting irregularities and voter-roll manipulation, saying the BJP and the Election Commission have offered no convincing explanations.
- The campaign presses for photo-based, machine-readable electoral rolls, photo-attached lists of deletions and additions before each election, and a speedy redressal system for wrongful deletions, with Kerala leaders warning of risks to upcoming local polls.