Chicago – February 08, 2025
India’s top opposition leader questioned the country’s main election body on Feb 7 over what he said were suspect electoral rolls in the richest Indian state.
Mr Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India’s Congress party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s main opponent, alleged that over 3.9 million new names were added to voter lists before the local election in 2024 in Maharashtra, more than the total number of voters added in the last five years.
An alliance led by Mr Gandhi’s party lost the election to an alliance led by Mr Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party despite being widely projected to win, leading them to repeatedly question the veracity of the polls since the election in November 2024.
The Election Commission, which conducts both state and federal elections across the country, has rejected allegations of irregularities and said in a post on social media platform X after Mr Gandhi’s allegations that it would respond in writing.
