Mohali, Aug. 9 -- Senior Congress leader and former health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Friday expressed concern over the issue of "vote theft" which was raised by Rahul Gandhi. Sidhu said that the issue is not only confined to any one state or region but is a sign of a direct attack on the sacred framework of the Constitution and democracy.

Sidhu alleged that before elections, the BJP government has been removing thousands of names from the voter list and creating fake votes, running a new racket of vote theft - which is nothing less than the "murder of democracy".

Sidhu claimed that vote theft has not only happened in Karnataka, but is also happening in Bihar, and the same "authoritarianism" was witnessed in Haryana, Maharashtra, an...