Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has now received former Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat has also got support. The former CEC believes that the Election Commission should investigate Rahul Gandhi’s allegations about fake voters in Bengaluru.

When asked about the controversy, he told The Telegraph, “When I was there, our policy was that if a senior official of a party makes any allegation, we automatically investigate him and present the facts before the common man so that we should remain confident in the system. We did not ask them to complain first (to the parties).”

What did Rahul Gandhi allege?

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that during the Lok Sabha elections held last year, there were more than one lakh fake voters in Mahadevpura assembly constituency of Bengaluru Central Parliamentary seat. He said that at least one such voter was registered at two polling stations and he voted at both places.

The Congress leader, showing slides of some parts of the voter list, allegedly stated that the same voter has been registered many times, addresses are wrong. 80 people have been registered in a house with a room and voters of Mahadevpura are also registered in other states.

The Congress also staged a protest on the issue in Bengaluru on Friday (August 8, 2025). Some people expressed their inability to reach the link of voter list download for some time on Friday morning. After this, it started alleging that after Rahul’s claims, the Election Commission (EC) is tampering with the voter list. However, sources in the Election Commission have denied this.

Election Commission statement

Election Commission sources informally shared a picture of members of a particular family with journalists, who had voter ID cards in their hands. This family was included in Rahul’s fake voters’ list because pictures of its members were not seen in the copy of the voter list given to his party.

In a post on X, the Commission challenged Rahul Gandhi and said that he should take an oath for every fake voter and file a complaint under the voter registration rules or apologize to the country. The Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka has also asked the Congress to present the document in support of its memorandum on this dispute.

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