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The Congress volition measurement up its run implicit the "vote chori" contented with a rally astatine the Ramlila Maidan successful New Delhi connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) and question to enactment the authorities and the Election Commission successful the dock for "colluding" to allegedly rig elections.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and erstwhile enactment main Rahul Gandhi are expected to code the gathering. Top leaders, including Congress wide secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, K.C. Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, and Sachin Pilot, would enactment successful the rally.
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi is besides apt to beryllium present.
The elder leaders volition assemble astatine the Indira Bhawan office of the enactment and past proceed to Ramlila Maidan successful a bus.
Congress wide caput in-charge of organisation K.C. Venugopal has said the enactment has collected astir 5.50 crore signatures against "vote chori".
"Rahul ji demonstrated with grounds however ballot chori is happening... He challenged the Home Minister of India to person a statement with him connected the property conferences. But the location curate didn't reply to that either," helium said, adding the Congress is holding a "massive rally" connected December 14 to item this issue.
"People are discussing this issue, and we person decided to springiness this momentum. After this rally, we person besides requested a gathering with the President of India to taxable this memorandum with 5.5 crore signatures," Mr. Venugopal said.
The rally comes days aft a fiery statement successful the Lok Sabha connected predetermination reforms, which saw the authorities and the absorption look disconnected implicit the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and different alleged electoral irregularities.
Participating successful a treatment connected predetermination reforms successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi had launched a no-holds-barred attack connected the authorities and the EC. He posed 3 questions, which, helium claimed, marque it wide that the BJP is "directing and using" the Election Commission (EC) to harm India's democracy.
Making suggestions, Mr. Gandhi had called for providing machine-readable elector lists to each parties 1 period earlier elections, rescinding the instrumentality that allows demolition of CCTV footage aft 45 days, giving entree to EVMs, and changing the instrumentality that allows the predetermination commissioners "to get distant with immoderate they privation to do".
"When you destruct the vote, you destruct the cloth of this country, you destruct modern India, you destruct the thought of India," Mr. Gandhi had said, gesturing towards the treasury benches.
On Friday, Rahul Gandhi had hailed his enactment MPs' show during the debates successful some Houses connected Vande Mataram and predetermination reforms, and claimed that the government's communicative was shredded to pieces by the opposition.
Intervening successful the statement connected predetermination reforms successful the Lok Sabha, a combative Home Minister Amit Shah had deed retired astatine the opposition for its run against SIR, saying the contented has been raked up arsenic it tin nary longer triumph elections by "corrupt practices".
The Home Minister besides asserted that the crushed for the Congress' decision successful successive polls was its leadership, not EVMs oregon "vote chori". The statement connected Election Reforms is connected successful the Rajya Sabha.
