Bengaluru, Aug. 8 -- Amid Leader of Opposition Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi's claim of voter list manipulation in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Karnataka Opposition Leader R Ashoka countered the Congress leader and said that when Congress was in power at the Centre, bogus voting was common.

Speaking at a press conference, he said, "In Padmanabhanagar, I got 57,000 votes, but 20,000 more should have come. However, Muslims were brought from elsewhere and added here. The revenue department conducts all elections. When everyone is from the Congress government, how can irregularities happen? In the past, when Congress was in power everywhere, bogus voting was common. They used to carry away ballot boxes. Dacoits like Phoolan Devi ran the show. Rahul Ga...