Rajanna blames DCM for Congress losing LS seats to ‘vote theft’ in Karnataka

Taking a excavation astatine Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar connected the contented of alleged “vote chori” (vote theft) successful Karnataka, elder Congress person and erstwhile Minister K.N. Rajanna has told Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi past period that the Congress could person secured an further 8-10 Lok Sabha seats successful Karnataka if the KPCC main and Booth Level Agents (BLAs) appointed by the enactment had paid much attraction to forestall ballot theft.

In a missive dated November 17, 2025, which has travel to the nationalist domain now, Mr. Rajanna said that if different States, too, had avoided akin lapses (vote theft), the Congress enactment could person won 30-40 much Lok Sabha seats and prevented Prime Minister Narendra Modi from holding the bureau for a 3rd consecutive time. “Instead, the Congress enactment would person assumed power, and Mr. Rahul Gandhi would person go the Prime Minister,” helium said.

Mr Rajanna, the erstwhile Minister and MLA for Madhugiri, who was sacked from the Cabinet for allegedly speaking against the ballot theft run launched by the party, said, “The intent of my connection is to emphasise that BLAs appointed by the KPCC person not performed their responsibilities. If our KPCC president, D.K. Shivakumar, and the officials acrophobic had paid due attraction to these lapses, they could person been prevented. In that case, the Congress enactment would apt person secured 8 to 10 further seats successful Karnataka”.

Further, Mr. Rajanna, a loyalist of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, said that helium supported the ballot theft run launched by Mr. Gandhi erstwhile helium visited Bengaluru.

Defending the contiguous enactment successful the authorities successful the State, Mr Rajanna said the Congress came to powerfulness successful the State successful 2013 and 2023 nether the enactment of “Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who has worked tirelessly to present justness to the mediocre and marginalised sections of each communities – SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities, and different weaker sections”.

Sources successful the Congress said that Mr. Rajanna had written letters to Mr. Gandhi earlier, too. Mr. Rajanna, who has been seemingly demanding the replacement of Mr. Shivakumar from the KPCC chief’s post, sought enactment against those who person misrepresented his words connected ballot theft.