INDIA bloc rally: Rahul Gandhi alleges CEC Gyanesh Kumar helped Modi become PM

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged that neither Narendra Modi would have secured a third term as prime minister nor Amit Shah become Union home minister without the help of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Kumar was appointed an election commissioner in March 2024 and took charge as chief election commissioner in February 2025.

Gandhi said the alleged theft of votes in the country amounted to “treason” and called for Kumar’s removal.

“This is not regular chori [theft],” the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said. “That is when someone steals something from a shop. This is theft of the voice of every person. In legal parlance, it is called rarest of rare case.”

The Congress leader was addressing tens of thousands of people at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan alongside several INDIA bloc leaders, including Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary MA Baby and Jammu and Kashmir National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah at a rally demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged electoral irregularities.

At least three serving chief ministers, Telangana’s Revanth Reddy, Kerala’s VD Satheesan and Himachal Pradesh’s Sukhvinder Singh, also joined the demonstration.

Banerjee, the former West Bengal chief minister accused the Bharatiya Janata Party...

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