New Delhi, June 22 -- Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the Election Commission (EC) of India of "deleting evidence" when it was required to "provide answers" after the poll body instructed its officers to destroy CCTV, webcasting and video footage of the elections after 45 days. "Voter list? Will not give machine-readable format. CCTV footage? Hidden by changing the law. Election photos and videos? Now they will be deleted in 45 days, not 1 year. The one who was supposed to provide answers - is the one deleting the evidence," Gandhi alleged in a post on X.

"It is clear that the match is fixed. And a fixed election is poison for democracy," said the Congress leader in a Hindi post. Gandhi has been demanding voter lists,...