BengaluruJul 30, 2025 17:55 IST
First revealed on: Jul 30, 2025 at 17:55 IST
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Congress Lok Sabha MP and Chief of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi will on August 4 protest in Bengaluru in opposition to alleged irregularities that he mentioned occurred through the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka, Residence Minister G Parameshwara mentioned on Wednesday.
“He (Gandhi) will meet Election Fee officers and submit a illustration on August 4. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) will organise occasions earlier than he submits the memorandum,” the Karnataka minister instructed reporters.
Final Thursday, Gandhi claimed he had “100 per cent proof” that the Election Fee “allowed dishonest” in a Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka and that the elections had been being “stolen”. “I’m completely satisfied that in constituency after constituency, that is the drama that’s going down. Hundreds and hundreds of recent voters (had been added),” he alleged.
Gandhi made the remarks when the Opposition events had been protesting in opposition to the Election Fee’s particular intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
Programme particulars of Gandhi are but to be finalised, Parameshwara mentioned, responding to a query on whether or not a padayatra can be held. “KPCC president (D Ok Shivakumar) and Chief Minister (Siddaramaiah) are finalising it. As of now, Rahul Gandhi will deal with celebration staff at Freedom Park. After that, he’ll submit a memorandum to the Election Fee. That is the tentative programme,” he mentioned.
Noting that Gandhi had raised complaints about electoral malpractices, Parameshwara mentioned there had been different complaints too. “In lots of constituencies, native legislators have filed complaints,” he mentioned.
Siddaramaiah echoed Rahul Gandhi’s views later and recommended that the Congress suffered a setback within the April 2024 polls “as a result of unlawful manipulation of electoral rolls….”
“There’s clear proof that electoral malpractice occurred in Karnataka. In constituencies throughout the state, there have been complaints by our celebration staff that new voters had been added instantly and in a suspicious method, whereas names of long-time voters had been eliminated with out justification,” the chief minister mentioned.
The chief minister additionally accused the BJP of misusing the Election Fee for the aim.