In a direct and no-holds-barred attack on both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission, the Congress on Sunday (December 14, 2025) held a massive and well-attended, public rally at Delhi’s Ramlila ground in which party chief Mallikarjun Kharge said those indulging in alleged vote chori (theft) are “gaddars” (traitors) and need to be removed from power. Former party Chief Rahul Gandhi said vote chori is in BJP’s DNA but the Congress would work with truth and non-violence to remove the Narendra Modi government, a path shown by Mahatma Gandhi.
“This fight is between ‘satya’ and ‘asatya’ [truth and untruth]. We will stand behind ‘satya’ and will remove [Prime Minister] Narendra Modi, [Home Minister] Amit Shah and the RSS government from the country. They have ‘satta’ [power] and they indulge in ‘vote chori’,” Mr. Gandhi said. Gandhi quoted from and lambasted Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), “The world respects not the truth but the powerful, display and manifestation of power alone” Bhagwat had been recently speaking at the Virat Hindu Maha Sammelan at the Andamans!
Rahul Gandhi also repeated the sham voters and bogus voter’s lists issued exposed by him and the INC in the Haryana state elections in 2024.
Sabrangindia had, on November 5, 2025 reported on Rahul Gandhi’s exposure on how in the 2024 Haryana elections “One in eight voters fake” According to Gandhi, Haryana, with roughly two crore registered voters, had about 25.4 lakh bogus entries — meaning “one in every eight voters is fake.”
He said his team had classified the fake voters under five categories:
- 5.2 lakh duplicate voters,
- 93,174 invalid addresses,
- 19.2 lakh bulk voters (20 or more voters registered at the same address), and
- Several others linked to misuse of Form 6 (additions) and Form 7 (deletions).
“Despite clear technical capacity to detect duplicates, the ECI deliberately refused to run even a basic photo-identity matching query,” Gandhi alleged. “Why? Because they are helping the BJP.”
The ‘Brazilian Model’ case and recycled photos
Displaying a presentation with screenshots from the official voter database, Gandhi held up a photo of a woman he said is a Brazilian model, alleging that her image was used to create 22 separate voter IDs across 10 polling booths in Haryana. “What is a Brazilian woman doing on a voters’ list in Haryana?” he asked.
He further claimed that in some cases, the same photograph appeared 223 times across different constituencies. “This is just one example. There are thousands more. This is not voter error — this is organised fraud,” he asserted.
The Congress leader ridiculed Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s explanation that voter IDs bearing “House No. 0” are reserved for homeless citizens. “We physically went to those addresses,” Gandhi said, showing a two-storey house listed as ‘House No. 0’. “This is not homelessness. This is hiding. The CEC is lying to the people of India.” In one instance, Gandhi said, 501 voters were registered under a single address, calling it “statistical proof of systematic rigging.”
“Industrialised vote theft”: Rahul Gandhi
In his major third time exposure on November 5, Rahul Gandhi had termed the manipulation “industrialised”, Gandhi said the same centralised pattern was visible in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh, adding that the Congress had first detected the scam in Mahadevapura and Aland Assembly constituencies in Karnataka. “In Aland, fake login IDs and mobile numbers were used to delete voters remotely. In Mahadevapura, over one lakh names were found to be either deleted or duplicated. We saw the same pattern in Haryana — that’s when we realised this is national-scale rigging,” Gandhi said.
He added that the same strategy was now being deployed in Bihar (October 2025 Vidhan Sabha elections), where 47 lakh names were deleted during the recent voter list revision. Several affected voters from Bihar’s Jamui district joined Gandhi on stage, claiming their names were removed without notice.
“Thousands of BJP Voters in Two States”
Gandhi also claimed that thousands of BJP leaders and workers were registered in multiple states. “They are voting in both Uttar Pradesh and Haryana,” he said, citing examples of party office-bearers with dual entries.
To underline this, he played a video of BJP Kerala Vice President B. Gopalakrishnan, who had in August openly stated that his party would “bring voters from other states and settle them for a year to ensure victory.”
INC’s show of strength at Ramlila Maidan
The grand only party also showcased nearly six crore signatures it gathered as part of its campaign against vote chori and these would be submitted to the President. The portrayed a figure representing Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, showing him in chains, while alleging electoral irregularities.
Addressing the ‘Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod’ rally, Mr. Kharge said the ideology of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat or RSS founder M.S. Golwalkar and Manusmriti would destroy the country, and only the ideology of the Congress could save it. He accused the BJP-RSS of trying to “finish off the Constitution and enslave the poor in the name of Hindutva”.
“These [BJP] people are ‘gaddars’, you will have to remove these gaddars. If you want to protect yourself, remove these gaddars. For that purpose, Rahul Gandhi walked throughout the country. BJP people are ‘dramebaaz’, they only believe in their own propaganda,” the Congress chief said.
Lakhs of Congresspersons arrive at Ram Lila Maidan, massive turnout
A massive turnout of Congress workers from across the country marked the party’s mega rally against alleged “vote chori”, with chants of “vote chor, gaddi chhod” echoing across the venue. Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, several senior party leaders, and the Chief Ministers of Karnataka, Telangana and Himachal Pradesh — Siddaramaiah, Revanth Reddy and Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu — were present at the rally.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Gandhi named Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, alleging that they were working in favour of the BJP and standing with untruth.
The Lok Sabha Opposition leader alleged that “vote chori” was not merely theft of votes but an attack on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Constitution. “Had they not been indulging in vote chori, you would have removed them from power in five minutes. Like truth is in your DNA, there is untruth and vote chori in their DNA,” he said to loud applause.
Warns of action
Informing the audience on an issue that he has raised several times these past months and year, Rahul Gandhi recalled how Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought a new law granting “immunity” to the Election Commission, Mr. Gandhi warned, “We are telling you [election commissioners] clearly that this law is to protect you and we will change this law retroactively and will take strict action against you.” He also claimed that the Prime Minister had lost confidence after the alleged vote theft was exposed, adding that Mr. Shah’s “hand was trembling” in Parliament.
“Amit Shah is brave only as long as he holds power. The day power is gone, his bravery will also vanish on that very day,” the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha said.
Mr. Kharge asserted that only the Congress’s ideology could “save the country”. “The seeds being sown by the RSS-BJP are very dangerous,” he said, adding that the Congress’s fight was against the RSS-BJP and those indulging in vote theft.
Referring to Mr. Modi’s victory claims, Mr. Kharge remarked, “We lost at many places, but still our party and our ideology are alive. If Modi loses once, there will be no trace of him after that,” and urged people to strengthen the Congress’s struggle for the people.
The Congress chief also questioned the Prime Minister’s foreign visits during parliamentary sessions.
Congress MP Saptagiri Ulka said that the party will continue to fight against the SIR and “vote chori” from the House to the streets.
“We had forced the government to discuss it; this is a big issue… Our main problem is that through this SIR, an attempt is being made to remove the poor, backward, Dalit, and traditional voters of Congress and the INDIA alliance from the elections to gain an advantage; therefore, we are holding this rally against it,” Ulka said.
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