Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday alleged that the BJP has “turned the Election Commission into its poll rigging machinery” and pledged that the DMK stands “shoulder to shoulder” with the opposition in confronting what he described as an assault on democracy.
In a post on X, Stalin wrote, “What happened in Bengaluru’s Mahadevapura is not an administrative lapse; it is a calculated conspiracy to steal the people’s mandate.” His remarks follow allegations by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi of large-scale “vote theft” and ahead of the INDIA bloc’s planned protest march from Parliament to the Election Commission.
Stalin said the “VoteTheft” evidence presented by Rahul Gandhi exposed “the scale of this fraud” and demanded the immediate release of complete, machine-readable voter rolls for every state, an end to “politically driven deletions,” and an independent probe into what he termed the “subversion of our democracy.”
“DMK will not watch in silence while the BJP robs India’s democracy in broad daylight,” he asserted.
Meanwhile, security was tightened in the national capital, with barricades set up outside Transport Bhawan ahead of the INDIA bloc’s protest against the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar and alleged voter fraud in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Opposition MPs from both Houses were scheduled to begin the march at 11:30 AM from Makar Dwar in Parliament to the Election Commission office at Nirvachan Sadan via Transport Bhawan. The Delhi Police stated that no formal permission had been sought for the march.
