The Election Commission of India (ECI) should be concerned that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s charge of voter list manipulation in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party poses a serious question on the credibility of elections. Gandhi presented purported evidence to the media from the electoral rolls of the Mahadevapura segment of the Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha constituency, making the point that the 114,046 vote margin of the victorious BJP here in the 2024 poll over the Congress was abnormally higher than the margins in other segments as well as the overall winning margin of 32,707 votes.

The specific instances of alleged fraud involving 100,250 voter entries involve the inclusion of scores of voters in a single-room house,........

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