'Data centre operator manipulated voter list in Karnataka':Report claims, '₹80 per name paid for this work'; Rahul had accused gov of vote theft

Rahul Gandhi held a press conference in Delhi on September 18. He had said that the Chief Election Commissioner is facilitating vote theft and deletion of votes.

A major revelation has emerged regarding the Congress's allegations of vote theft in Karnataka's Aland assembly constituency. According to an India Express report, the police's Special Investigation Team (SIT), during its investigation into irregularities in the voters' list, found that a data centre operator received ₹80 for fraudulently removing each voter's name.

According to the SIT, applications to remove the names of 6,018 voters were received for the Aland seat between December 2022 and February 2023. This means the data center operator was paid a total of ?4.8 lakh. The SIT has also identified a data center at the Kalabu