Overview

• Rahul Gandhi renewed allegations that 6,018 online deletion requests targeted voters in Aland, accusing the Chief Election Commissioner of shielding perpetrators and urging disclosure of session, IP and OTP data.
• The Election Commission said only 24 of the 6,018 Form 7 applications were found genuine, 5,994 were rejected after verification, and an FIR (No. 26/2023) was filed in February 2023.
• The Karnataka government constituted a Special Investigation Team to examine the Aland case, as Congress asserts the state CID has sent 18 requests to the ECI seeking technical logs.
• AAP revived its ‘vote chori’ claims in Delhi’s New Delhi constituency, but the ECI cited a 76‑page reply sent to Atishi on January 13 and maintained that all actions followed the RP Act and rules.
• Reporting outlined system gaps that allow Form 7 to be filed online without supporting documents or robust EPIC‑phone validation, even as officials stress deletions require notice, field checks and a hearing rather than automatic action.