Overview

• Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar declared Rahul Gandhi’s vote-theft allegations baseless unless backed by a sworn affidavit within seven days or followed by a public apology.
• Rahul Gandhi has rejected the affidavit demand as selective enforcement and pressed on with his 1,300-kilometer Voter Adhikar Yatra to protest the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
• INDIA bloc leaders have staged disruptions in Parliament and are considering an impeachment motion against the CEC under the same constitutional process used for Supreme Court judges.
• The Election Commission defended its Special Intensive Revision exercise as transparent, publishing draft lists of omitted Bihar electors and keeping the claims window open until September 1.
• The Commission declined requests for machine-readable voter rolls and extended CCTV footage, citing statutory limits and voter-privacy protections.