Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition, stated on Wednesday that there are “serious discrepancies” in India’s voting system and promised to keep contesting its integrity through mass mobilization and possibly legal action.
In the 2024 general election and other recent polls, Gandhi, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi clan that leads the main opposition Congress party, accused authorities last week of inserting fictitious names to voter records.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, won a number of state elections with relative ease after performing poorly in the national election and needing to rely on partners to create a government.
Both the BJP and the Election Commission have denied the allegations of rigging, which are uncommon in the 1.42 billion-person world’s most populous democracy.
