India, Aug. 7 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's massive claim in Delhi on Thursday - that the Election Commission "colluded with the BJP to steal elections" - had a central example. He said the Lok Sabha seat of Bangalore Central, which the Congress lost to the BJP by margin of less than 3 percentage points, had instance of "fake voters" and "duplicate voting".

The EC and the BJP had not yet reacted when this report was filed at 2.30 pm, August 7.

As part of a detailed presentation to back his claims of large-scale theft or "vote chori", he said that in Karnataka the Congress was expecting to win 16 of the 28 seats, but won only nine. The loss in Bangalore Central raised suspicion, in particular, he said.

The party lost the seat by 32,...