India, Sept. 19 -- Minutes after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi levelled allegations of unauthorised voter additions in the Rajura assembly constituency in Maharashtra and deletions in Aland constituency in Karnataka, Subhash Dhote, Rajura's Congress candidate, said he had lost the polls because of this electoral rigging.

Gandhi on Thursday charged that the rigging was done through an automated software. The same software, he added, had been used to add and delete voters in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, and was now being used in Bihar.

Rajura is one of the six assembly seats in the Chandrapur Lok Sabha constituency. Congress candidate Pratibha Dhanorkar won the Chandrapur seat by 2,60,000 votes, and in the Rajura asse...