Overview

• During visits to Rae Bareli and Junagadh, Rahul Gandhi repeated claims that elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Karnataka were stolen and vowed to release what he called more ‘dynamic’ and ‘explosive’ evidence.
• The BJP escalated its rebuttal by highlighting metadata that it says shows Congress PDFs used in a ‘vote chori’ presentation were created in a Myanmar time zone, and it alleged the campaign was scripted from abroad.
• Congress leaders dismissed the foreign-script claim as ridiculous even as Gandhi said the ‘vote chor, gaddi chhod’ slogan was spreading across the country.
• Senior BJP figure G. V. L. Narasimha Rao countered that Congress’s slide has been decades in the making, citing national and state data since 1984 to argue the charge lacks basis.
• Separately, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged removal of ‘compromised’ or ‘non‑performing’ leaders in Gujarat, while BRS’s K. T. Rama Rao accused the party of ignoring ‘MLA chori’ in Telangana.