NEW DELHI — Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said his party stands with “satya (truth)” and vowed to remove the “Narendra Modi-RSS government”.
The Congress party mounted a fierce offensive against alleged electoral malpractice, with its top leadership converging at Delhi’s historic Ramlila Maidan for the “Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod” rally.
The event, billed as a mass protest against “vote chori” (vote theft), saw Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Sachin Pilot and other senior leaders address thousands of supporters.
Former party chief Sonia Gandhi was also present.
Rahul Gandhi, leading the charge, accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of colluding with the BJP to manipulate electoral rolls and shield irregularities. Naming Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, Gandhi alleged they were “working for the BJP.”
“We will stand with satya (truth) and will remove the Narendra Modi-RSS government from power. They have satta (power), and they indulge in vote chori,” Gandhi declared, drawing loud cheers from the crowd.
He further said that the BJP distributed Rs 10,000 during elections without facing any action from the poll panel. “In this fight between truth and untruth, the Election Commission is working with the BJP government,” he said.
“…Listen to RSS Chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat’s statement, the world doesn’t look at truth, it looks at power. Whoever has power is respected. This is Mohan Bhagwat’s thinking. This ideology belongs to the RSS. Our ideology, the ideology of India, the ideology of Hinduism, the ideology of every religion in the world, says that truth is the most important thing. Mohan Bhagwat says truth is meaningless, power is important…I guarantee you from this stage, you will see, by upholding the truth, by standing behind the truth, we will remove Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, the RSS government from India.”
The rally marks the Congress’s most significant push in the national capital on its “vote chori” campaign, which gained traction during Gandhi’s “Voter Adhikar Yatra” in Bihar earlier this year.
Gandhi has previously held three press conferences presenting “evidence of vote chori” in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Haryana. He accused the ECI of presiding over inflated voter rolls and permitting fake votes, charges the Commission has dismissed as “incorrect and baseless.” This time, the Congress chose to go solo, without the INDIA bloc allies, citing uncertainty after the Bihar debacle.
Senior leaders insist the campaign is far from over, with upcoming elections in Assam, Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu seen as crucial tests of its resonance.
“Rahul Gandhi believes this fight is about the most basic element of democracy — voting. He will continue his fight against the EC and the BJP. We hope for an awakening of the masses on this issue,” said a senior Congress leader.
Whether the “vote chori” campaign can galvanise public opinion beyond party loyalists remains to be seen, but Sunday’s rally underscored Gandhi’s determination to keep the issue alive as the Congress eyes critical state polls in 2026.
VIDEO | Delhi: Addressing the party’s ‘Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhor’ rally at Ramlila Maidan, Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, “PM Modi brought a new law to give immunity to EC; we will change that and act against Election Commissioners.”
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) December 14, 2025
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— With inputs from IANS
