Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday, accusing the ruling party of engineering a calculated conspiracy to undermine Indian democracy through systemic “vote theft”. In a sharp critique shared on social media, Kharge claimed that the BJP’s electoral tactics involve manipulating voter rolls to suit their political convenience-adding voters where favorable and fragmenting or deleting them elsewhere.
Earlier reporting noted: Votes being added, deleted to make BJP win, says Congress citing Maharashtra, Delhi SIR Flagging the exclusion of 2.06 crore names in Maharashtra’s electoral rolls after the special intensive revision (SIR) , the Congress on Tuesday (September 1, 2026) said votes were being added and deleted to ensure that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins elections. Earlier reporting noted: Following the 2024 Maharashtra elections, the Congress had formally submitted representations to the Election Commission alleging large-scale voter roll manipulation, including unusual voter spikes in several constituencies.
Earlier reporting noted: On Tuesday (September 1, 2026), Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said “the BJP and the ‘vote theft commission’ keep changing their tactics, and they will continue to do so; the goal remains just one: BJP’s victory at any cost, and the end of India’s democracy”. Kharge added that party workers in Telangana and Karnataka are continuously confronting similar administrative manipulations. “The country is now uniting against vote theft. The nation has understood the BJP’s conspiracy,” Kharge asserted, warning that the perpetrators would ultimately face accountability for holding democracy captive. It had alleged that forged documentation, such as fake Aadhaar cards with mismatched names and photos, were used to add fictitious voters without physical verification of addresses.
Rahul Gandhi, who is Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, alleged in a post on X that the BJP “does not listen” to the people or obey their command, as its government is built on “vote theft”. The fresh “vote theft” allegations have resurfaced amid preparations by political parties for assembly polls in Goa, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur early next year.
