India, June 26 -- The Congress on Thursday sought machine-readable digital copies of the Maharashtra voter lists, polling day footage of the 2024 assembly election, and a meeting with the Election Commission of India (ECI) to discuss the issues Rahul Gandhi has raised about alleged rigging in the state.

The Congress's EAGLE cell, set up to monitor the conduct of free and fair elections, wrote a letter to the ECI, maintaining it is irrefutable from its data that more new electors were added in Maharashtra between the Lok Sabha election in May 2024 and the assembly polls in November that year than in five years between 2019 state elections and 2024 national elections. "This has never happened before and defies basic common sense and logic....