New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge questioned the Election Commission of India (ECI) over allegations of the poll body "shielding" certain people who are trying to delete votes of real voters, as he hailed party leader Rahul Gandhi for "thoroughly exposing mass vote deletion" in Karnataka's Aland constituency.

"CID probing the Aland AC voter deletion case, wrote 18 letters to ECISVEEP in 18 months, but ECI has stone-walled critical information necessary to track the culprits. Armed with concrete proof, Rahul Gandhi has thoroughly exposed the mass vote deletion in Aland Assembly in Karnataka," Kharge posted on X.

Raising three questions, Kharge asked who the poll body has been shielding to allow for alleged vote...