India, June 7 -- Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that the Maharashtra assembly election held last year had been "rigged" and alleged that the same would be repeated in the upcoming Bihar assembly polls.

In a post on X, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, shared his own article published in a newspaper and said, "How to steal an election? Maharashtra assembly elections in 2024 were a blueprint for rigging democracy. My article shows how this happened, step by step."

He elaborated, "Step 1: Rig the panel for appointing the Election Commission, Step 2: Add fake voters to the roll, Step 3: Inflate voter turnout, Step 4: Target the bogus voting exactly where BJP needs to win, Step 5: Hide the evidence."

Gandhi added, "It's not hard to s...