Gyanesh Kumar Will Go To Jail”: Rahul Gandhi Calls 2024 Polls “Illegal” At Delhi Rally

Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha) Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said Gyanesh Kumar will be removed as Chief Election Commissioner and be jailed eventually, alleging that votes were stolen in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections through the electronic voting machines (EVMs) and manipulation of voter lists.

“This theft of votes is no ordinary theft. This is the theft of every voice of India. This is called treason,” Gandhi said at the INDIA bloc rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, speaking in Hindi. “Without Gyanesh Kumar, neither would Narendra Modi have become Prime Minister nor Amit Shah the Home Minister,” he argued, calling the last Lok Sabha polls illegal.

“Votes were stolen in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Votes were stolen through EVMs and by tampering with the voter list,” he said. “After the 2024 elections, 15 per cent of voters were removed. In 2024, there was a 3 per cent difference between us (INDIA bloc) and the (BJP-led) NDA. The 2024 election was illegal,” he argued. He said the data of the Election Commission “is saying this”.

He cited what he had said about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020-21 to claim, “What I say always turns out to be true; doesn’t it?”

“And I am telling every citizen and every youth of India: Gyanesh Kumar will be removed from the post of Chief Election Commissioner. Gyanesh Kumar will go to jail,” he declared.(UPDATED ON 1ST NOVEMBER 2026)