The Opposition led by Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is at the center of crisis unleased by his vote theft allegations on EC. The seeds of electoral malpractices sowed by Congress party are coming to bite Rahul in the face. A viral video is circulating online of Congress Leader Sandeep Dikshit where he explains how Congress used to do Vote Chori during elections from Ballot papers. In the video he is seen admitting that they gave 100 Fake Votes to Congress in every booth.
While Gandhi has positioned himself as a crusader against corruption and cronyism, critics argue his repeated “vote chori” allegations against the BJP and the Election Commission have become a political crutch, diverting attention from Congress’s own organizational decay.
Since 2014, Congress’s electoral footprint has shrunk dramatically. In states like West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, Congress’ political footprint remains almost irrelevant.
While Rahul Gandhi has made “vote theft” a central plank of his recent political attacks, the party’s own history with questionable electoral practices continues to haunt it. The memory of booth-capturing incidents in the pre-EVM era, manipulation of voter rolls, and misuse of state machinery under past Congress governments are coming to surface with time.
In Karnataka (July 2025), Rahul Gandhi claimed to have ‘100% proof’ of electoral manipulation, pointing to an unusual number of new voter entries, particularly individuals over 45 and the deletion of younger, legitimate voters. However, the ECI’s explanations were dismissed by Gandhi as ‘complete nonsense’. He warned that the Commission was failing in its constitutional duty.
Gandhi also accused the EC of preparing a “choreographed” election schedule to benefit the ruling BJP, evading questions from the Opposition, and refusing to provide digital copies of voter rolls. The EC responded with a strong public rebuttal, urging him to file a sworn complaint using a specific format it circulated.
At a dinner meeting on Wednesday evening, attended by around 50 leaders from 25 Opposition parties, Mr. Gandhi presented what he described as photographic evidence of “fake voters” in Mahadevpura.
Rahul Gandhi is already facing backlash over his high-handed comments on fake voters remark and putting the blame on EC for perhaps his political failures. And now interestingly, an old video is resurfacing on social media which puts the credibility of Rahul Gandhi at risk along with the Congress Government’s involvement in Electoral Manipulation by means of booth capturing.
The timing couldn’t be more surprising. Congress’s Rahul Gandhi is facing criticism across political spectrum for his fake allegations on ECI for voter theft. The wide circulation of Sandeep Dikshit’s Video implicating Congress Party’s political history of manipulating elections by means of booth capturing, raises questions upon the credibility of Congress and the allegations made by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.