India, Nov. 6 -- Dismissing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's claims of vote theft in the Haryana Assembly polls as "false and baseless," the BJP on Wednesday accused the Congress of raising questions on the ECI to hide its failures and defame India's democracy.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju also accused Rahul of trying to "instigate" Gen Z and asserted that such efforts will never succeed as India's youngsters are wise enough not to fall for such provocations. The BJP retort came hours after the Gandhi scion cited electoral-list data from Haryana to claim that 25 lakh entries were "fake" and the poll victory in the state was "stolen" from the Congress party last year.

Rijiju rejected Rahul's allegations as "baseless and false" and said he is ...