New Delhi: A day before the first phase of polling in Bihar, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday revived his charge of “vote chori”, this time accusing the Election Commission of India (ECI), “in partnership with the prime minister and the home minister”, of allowing the BJP to “steal” the 2024 Haryana assembly election.

Gandhi’s press conference at the Congress headquarters mirrored his previous two outbursts on the issue—first in August and then in September—in which he had made similar allegations against the ECI, citing data to claim that voter lists used in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Karnataka were compromised.

His assertion on Wednesday that the entire outcome of the Haryana assembly election—in which the BJP won a majority with 48 seats, denying

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