BJP Fires Back At Rahul’s ‘Electoral Anomaly’ Charge, Mocks ‘Hit And Run’ Strategy

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday mounted a blistering critique of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his claims of anomalies in India’s electoral system, saying that he was “maligning” the country’s constitutional institutions.

In a press conference at the party headquarters, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala tore into Gandhi and the Congress party for “painting a poor picture of India’s robust electoral system” before foreign publications and questioned his conduct and integrity as the Leader of Opposition (LoP).

Gandhi, speaking to Financial Times, a UK-based newspaper, said that “India’s democracy was under siege from systematic vote-rigging and the Congress party’s strategy was to challenge the integrity of India’s electoral system by building public pressure”