New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said on Sunday that he rebuked Rahul Gandhi over his 'vote chori' allegation and asked him to either sign an affidavit or apologise to the nation for his remarks, which he described as an 'insult' to the Constitution of India.

The Election Commission's remarks came on a day when Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Rahul Gandhi launched his 1,300 km-long 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' from poll-bound Bihar's Sasaram to step up the Opposition INDIA bloc's campaign against its "vote chori" (vote theft) claims.

On 7 August, Rahul Gandhi had alleged "vote chori (theft)" of 1,00,250 votesin a Karnataka constituency, with 11,965 duplicate voters in the segment, 40,009 voters with fake and i...