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A time aft facing a terrible drubbing successful Bihar, the Congress connected Saturday (November 15, 2025) questioned the relation of the Election Commission successful the canvass process portion its apical leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and enactment main Mallikarjun Kharge, went into a huddle to sermon the canvass outcome.
Mr. Kharge and Mr. Gandhi were joined by AICC wide caput (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal, enactment treasurer Ajay Maken and AICC Bihar in-charge Krishna Allavaru, sources said.
According to the sources, the leaders met to sermon the Congress' mediocre show successful Bihar, wherever the enactment won lone six of the 61 seats it contested, its second-worst amusement successful the State aft 2010, erstwhile it won lone 4 seats.
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Mr. Gandhi did not talk to the media persons aft the meeting, as the leaders of the Mahagathbandhan, of which the Congress is simply a part, remained successful a State of disbelief aft the NDA swept the polls.
Asked astir the Bihar canvass result and the party's mediocre performance, Mr. Venugopal sought to enactment the full blasted connected the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging that the full canvass process is questionable and determination is nary transparency. The enactment would soon analyse the effect and would travel retired with factual impervious successful the adjacent fewer weeks, helium said.
"This effect that has travel from Bihar is unbelievable for each of us. This is not lone for Congress. The full Bihar radical are not believing it and besides our confederation partners. We discussed with each of them; they are not believing it," Mr. Venugopal said.
"Because, a 90% positive onslaught complaint for a governmental enactment — which has not happened successful Indian history. We are doing a thorough analysis; we are collecting information from crossed Bihar. Within 1 oregon 2 weeks, we volition travel retired with factual proof," helium told reporters.
Alleging that the process of electioneering is "completely questionable", helium said the enactment leaders person been continuously raising the contented during electioneering.
"The Election Commission is wholly one-sided. Whatever they are doing, determination is nary transparency astatine all, and therefore, this process is questionable. Anyway, we volition cod each information from everyplace from full Bihar and past contiguous the facts," helium said.
Asked astir Mr. Gandhi's comments calling the predetermination "not fair", Mr. Venugopal said, "We person been talking astir the Election Commission (role) and we talked astir this during the Haryana elections - that the Haryana predetermination is rigged".
"We person travel retired with grounds and person the Election Commission question our evidence," helium asked.
"On Bihar polls also, we volition travel with factual proof," helium said.
On Friday (November 14, 2025), Mr. Gandhi said the Bihar predetermination effect was surprising. The predetermination was not just from the precise beginning, and that is wherefore the enactment could not execute thing much, helium claimed.
Mr. Gandhi besides said the Congress and the INDIA bloc would behaviour an in-depth reappraisal of the results.
The Congress had besides claimed that the predetermination results successful Bihar without uncertainty bespeak "vote chori connected a gigantic standard - masterminded by the PM, the HM, and the Election Commission".
Rahul Gandhi’s canvass run against the BJP had revolved astir his "Vote Chori"(vote theft) allegations.
