Karnal, Aug. 12 -- Former state information commissioner and senior Congress leader Ashok Mehta said the leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has opened the eyes of the Election Commission of India (ECI) by exposing the 'vote theft', but the commission is trying to cover up its mistakes by targeting the Congress MP.

In a statement issued on Monday, when the Opposition took out a protest march in Delhi, Mehta said if the ECI is honest, then it should consider this as feedback and investigate every constituency with transparency, instead of targeting Gandhi.

"Gandhi's team worked on ground and collected data of a Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka. On the basis of this, he revealed the systematic way in which votes were stolen ...