India, Aug. 8 -- The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, made serious allegations about the integrity of elections and electoral rolls in the country on Thursday. The Congress has alleged that some prima facie credible discrepancies in electoral rolls in a single assembly segment (Mahadevpura) made a critical difference to overall results in the Lok Sabha constituency of Bangalore Central, which was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 polls.

He also charged the Election Commission of India (ECI) - one of the most critical constitutional institutions which safeguards the sanctity of democratic competition and hence peaceful transfer of power - of colluding with the ruling dispensation. What is one to make of...