New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that there were attempts to delete the names of 6,018 voters in the Aland constituency of Karnataka in December 2022 and add the names of 6,850 "fake voters" in Maharashtra's Rajura constituency in 2024, alleging that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar was shielding the people behind these attempts.

Speaking at party headquarters Indira Bhawan in Delhi, Gandhi said the Karnataka crime investigation department (CID) wrote 18 times to the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking details such as OTP trails and destination ports involved in such deletions, adding that "EC has not given it because this will lead us to where the operations a...