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NCP (SP) main Sharad Pawar connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025) claimed that BJP leaders routinely respond whenever Congress MP Rahul Gandhi questions the Election Commission's functioning, fuelling "mistrust" successful the canvass panel.
Responding to a question connected Rahul Gandhi's disapproval of the Election Commission of India implicit alleged "vote chori", Mr. Pawar said Mr. Gandhi and different Opposition leaders person raised cardinal issues astir the ECI's functioning.
"When Gandhi, the person of absorption (in the Lok Sabha), raised the contented successful Parliament, the instauration acrophobic should person taken enactment of it. But what is happening is that erstwhile Gandhi raises questions and criticises the ECI, the ECI does not reply — it is the BJP and its leaders who respond," helium told reporters successful Pune.
Instead of the Election Commission, the Chief Minister and different leaders are responding to specified issues, the erstwhile Union Minister noted.
"By doing this, they are really contributing to the mistrust astir the ECI, which is not good," helium added.
Sharpening his onslaught connected the contented of “vote chori” (vote theft), Mr. Gandhi past week accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of protecting those who destroyed democracy.
To buttress his allegation, the person of the absorption cited information from 2 Assembly constituencies successful Karnataka and Maharashtra, wherever helium claimed voters were deleted/added successful a fraudulent manner.
The Election Commission has dubbed the allegations arsenic incorrect and baseless, and said, “No deletion of immoderate ballot tin beryllium done online by immoderate subordinate of the public, arsenic misconceived by Gandhi.”
