Stalin said the Opposition INDIA bloc will not watch in silence while the BJP robs India’s democracy in broad daylight.
Published Aug 11, 2025 | 12:13 PM ⚊ Updated Aug 11, 2025 | 12:13 PM
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin.
Synopsis: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said that the alleged vote theft by the BJP was a calculated conspiracy to steal the people’s mandate. Stalin posed three questions to the ECI on behalf of the INDIA bloc, which would organise a protest march.
Supporting Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of vote theft by the BJP, facilitated by the Election Commission of India (ECI), Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said on Monday, 11 August, that it was a calculated conspiracy to steal the people’s mandate.
On 7 August, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the ECI colluded with the BJP to enact a massive voter fraud to swing election results in favour of the saffron party.
He said that the grand old party analysed the voters’ list and voting data of the Mahadevapura Assembly segment in the Bengaluru Central constituency in Karnataka and found irregularity in 1,00,250 votes.
“The BJP has turned the Election Commission into its poll rigging machinery. What happened in #Bengaluru’s #Mahadevapura is not an administrative lapse, it is a calculated conspiracy to steal the people’s mandate,” Stalin said in a post on X.
Stalin, in his X post, posed three questions to the ECI on behalf of the INDIA bloc, which would organise a protest march from the Parliament premises on Monday.
“The vote theft evidence presented by my brother and LoP Rahul Gandhi exposes the scale of this fraud. Today, as Rahul Gandhi leads MPs of the INDIA bloc in a march from Parliament House to the ECI, we demand the immediate release of a complete machine-readable voter roll for every state, an end to politically driven deletions, and an independent probe into this subversion of our democracy,” Stalin said.
“DMK stands shoulder to shoulder in this fight. We will not watch in silence while the BJP robs India’s democracy in broad daylight,” he added.
The Congress will also present a memorandum to the ECI in New Delhi on Monday regarding the alleged “voter theft”.
(Edited by Muhammed Fazil.)
