Overview
- At Saturday’s Annual Legal Conclave, Rahul Gandhi claimed Congress holds an “atom bomb” of evidence after manually comparing 6.5 lakh voter entries and uncovering 1.5 lakh fake names and photographs.
- He alleged the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were rigged to benefit the BJP and warned that any Election Commission officials involved would face treason charges.
- The Election Commission dismissed his charges as “baseless and wild” and directed officials to ignore such statements while continuing impartial work.
- BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra derided the “atom bomb” metaphor and urged Gandhi to “flow like water” rather than “explode” in attacks on the poll panel.
- Opposition members have stalled parliamentary sessions over Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision, pressing for machine-readable voter-roll data and full transparency.