India, Sept. 18 -- Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged the mass deletion of 6,018 voters from Congress strongholds in Karnataka's Aland constituency during the 2023 state assembly polls using the identity of local voters.

Addressing media persons at the party headquarters Indira Bhawan in Delhi, Gandhi said Karnataka CID had written 18 times seeking details such as One Time Password (OTP) trails and destination ports involved in such deletions but the Election Commission of India (ECI) did not comply.

"The election commission has not given it because this will lead us to where the operations are being done," said Gandhi. He demanded that the chief election commissioner (CEC) should give the data within a week.

"Othe...