Rahul Gandhi quips 'abhi picture baki hai' after protest over 'vote theft'

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (Image: ANI

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday doubled down on his 'vote chori (vote theft)' allegations against the Election Commission of India (ECI) and accused it of not performing its duty of enforcing the 'one person, one vote' principle.

Speaking to reporters outside Parliament Tuesday morning, the Congress MP said, "There are many seats... not just one or two... in which this was done. It is being done at a national level... systematically. The Election Commission knows this. Earlier there was no proof. Now there is..."

Gandhi asserted that his party was engaged in protecting the Constitution and would continue to do so.

"We are protecting the Constitution... the Election Commission is not doing its duty of 'one person, one vote'. Abhi picture baaki hai (there is more to come)," Gandhi quipped, PTI reported.

VIDEO | "We are protecting the Constitution. EC not doing its duty of enforcing 'One Man, One Vote'... There are countless cases like Minta Devi," says Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on SIR and '124-year-old voter Minta Devi on the Bihar's voters' list'

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Asked about Minta Devi, a 124-year-old voter allegedly listed in the Election Commission's voter list from Bihar, Gandhi said, "There are unlimited cases like that".

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also said there were several such cases in which addresses and names of relatives etc. are all fake.

Earlier in the day, several MPs of the INDIA bloc parties held a protest in the Parliament House complex on Tuesday against the Election Commission's voter roll revision in Bihar, with many of them wearing white T-shirts that had the name of the "124-year-old voter" allegedly found on the state's voters' list emblazoned on it

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, TMC's Derek O'Brien, DMK's TR Baalu, NCP(SP)'s Supriya Sule, as well as other opposition MPs from DMK and Left parties, gathered near Parliament's Makar Dwar. They held posters and raised slogans, demanding a rollback of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, PTI reported.

Congress' Manickam Tagore alleged that the EC under Rajeev Kumar and Gyanesh Kumar has become a department of the BJP. "Minta Devi is a first time voter and she is 124-years-old. The voters list carries her name as a first time voter. We are wanting a discussion on such issues. How EC has become a party to the BJP. The voter list is full of such fraud," he charged while participating in the protest, PTI reported.

On Monday, opposition MPs, including Rahul Gandhi, Kharge and Pawar, took out a protest march from the Parliament House to the Election Commission office against the revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and alleged "vote chori", but were stopped midway by the police. Over 300 MPs were briefly detained amid high drama.

(With inputs from PTI)