Overview
- Congress says it will hold a 'Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod' rally in Delhi in the last week of November to present signatures to President Droupadi Murmu.
- Party leaders claim more than five crore signatures have been gathered alleging duplicate voting, fake entries and fraudulent addresses in electoral rolls.
- Jharkhand Congress reports about 16 lakh signed forms from all 81 assembly constituencies, dispatched to AICC headquarters from Ranchi in a flagged-off vehicle.
- The campaign advances five demands: machine-readable voter lists with photos, public pre-election addition/deletion lists with photos, a remedy for wrongful deletions, a clear cut-off date for changes, and prosecution of officials involved in suppression.
- The BJP and the Election Commission have rejected the charges as baseless, and the reported signature totals are party figures.