{"id":181212,"date":"2025-08-13T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=181212"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:42:15","slug":"afraid-of-truth-eci-can-no-longer-hide-electoral-malpractices-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/08\/13\/afraid-of-truth-eci-can-no-longer-hide-electoral-malpractices-rahul-gandhi.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Afraid of truth\u2019, ECI can no longer hide electoral malpractices: Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-181213\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/08\/111815231d0ca81.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" \/>New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has said the Election Commission of India (ECI) has been so exposed over electoral malpractices that it can no longer hide its actions.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, talking to reporters during a protest march to the ECI office in New Delhi, Rahul Gandhi said, \u201cThree hundred MPs want to meet the Election Commission, but the Commission says you cannot come\u2026 because it is afraid of the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi said the refusal of the ECI to meet the MPs reflected the sorry state of democracy in India. He reiterated that the opposition was fighting not a political battle but a struggle to \u201csave the soul of the country and the Constitution,\u201d adding that the principle of \u2018one person, one vote\u2019 had been subverted through duplicate and fraudulent entries in voter lists.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting the ECI\u2019s notice asking him to file his allegations on affidavit, Gandhi said he had quoted the commission\u2019s own data and suggested it should verify the facts from its own website. He added that the opposition would continue to demand a clean and accurate voters\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, about 300 opposition MPs, including Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, were stopped by police from marching to the ECI office to protest against alleged \u201cvote theft\u201d across India. Many MPs staged a sit-in on the road before being detained and taken to Parliament Street Police Station. They were later released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has said the Election Commission of India (ECI) has been so exposed over electoral malpractices that it can no longer hide its actions. According to Kashmir Media Service, talking to reporters during a protest march to the ECI office in New Delhi, Rahul Gandhi said, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}