06 May,2026 02:52 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Rahul Gandhi. File pic
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that every sixth BJP MP in the Lok Sabha won through "vote chori" and questioned whether they should be labelled "ghuspethiya" in the BJP's own terminology.
"Through vote theft, sometimes individual seats are stolen, and at other times, an entire government. Of the 240 BJP MPs in the Lok Sabha, roughly every sixth MP secured seat through vote chori," the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said in a post in Hindi on X.
In a sharp attack on the BJP, Gandhi alleged that the Haryana government itself was formed through manipulated means.
"They are not hard to identify - should we, in the BJP's own parlance, label them âghuspethiya'?" he asked.
Gandhi further alleged that institutions responsible for managing voter lists and the electoral process were being controlled and misused.
"The very institutions they keep in their pockets - the ones they manipulate to distort voter lists and the electoral process - are themselves âremote-controlled'," he said.
The Congress leader asserted that the BJP would fail to secure even 140 Lok Sabha seats if elections were conducted fairly today.
"Their real fear is the truth. For if fair elections were to be held, they would not be able to win even 140 seats today," he claimed.
On Tuesday, Gandhi had termed the BJP's victory in the West Bengal and Assam assembly elections a "theft" of the mandate and accused the saffron party of attempting to undermine Indian democracy.
Backing the All India Trinamool Congress after its defeat, Gandhi urged Opposition parties not to celebrate the outcome for political reasons.
"Put petty politics aside. This is not about one party or another. This is about India," he said.
The BJP ousted the Trinamool Congress from power in West Bengal and retained power in Assam for a third consecutive term in the assembly poll results declared on Monday.
