New Delhi- Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi today reiterated his charge that the elections were being stolen in India and it was a reality.

Talking to reporters during the INDIA protest against Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, outside the Parliament today, Gandhi revealed that his party had found out how the BJP manipulated the voter lists in Karnataka during the Lok Sabha elections.

He cited an example from Karnataka where the party carried out deep and detailed study, choosing one constituency to find out how the BJP was stealing the elections. He said it took six months for the party and eventually everything came out in black and white.

Gandhi reiterated that the BJP stole the elections in Maharashtra with the support of the Election Commission of India. He pointed out, nearly one crore voters were added to the electoral rolls within a span of a few months in the state between the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabha elections.

Holding the Election Commission in the dock for its connivance with the BJP, he said, when the Congress party asked for voter lists (machine-readable, digital copy of the electoral roll) from the Commission, it refused. And when the party asked for the video recording, it changed the rules, he added.

Gandhi said that having realised that its gameplan of stealing the elections had been exposed, the BJP had now taken a different route in Bihar by getting voters deleted from the electoral rolls in order to prepare a new voter list that suits its interests.