Bad weather forces Rahul to cancel Almora rally, return to Delhi
Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi's Almora rally was cancelled on Thursday owing to bad weather conditions in the Kumaon region.
Opposition INDIA bloc MPs on Tuesday staged a protest at Parliament’s Makar Dwar after donningT-shirts carrying the picture of Minta Devi, who is listed as a 124-year old voter in Bihar’s Darouda assembly constituency.
The law makers were demonstrating againt alleged “vote theft”, accusing the Election Commission of large scale fraud in the electoral rolls.
Referring to Minta Devi’s case, Congress whip in Lok Sabha, Manikam Tagore launched a direct attack on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that under his tenure, the poll panel has become a department of the ruling BJP.
“The level of the Election Commission’s failure can be understood under the tenure of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. The EC has become a department of the BJP. They have completely failed. For example, in the electoral rolls, there is one Minta Devi, who is 124 years old!” Tagore said.
Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi said Minta Devi is not the single such case and alleged there are many such cases. He asserted that it is the responsibility of the Election Commission to ensure ‘one man-one vote’.
“It is the responsibility of the Election Commission to implement One Man-One Vote, but they have not done their job…There is a case of 124-year-old Minta Devi, and there are many such cases. The picture is still incomplete,” he said.
We proudly nominate Minta Devi for the Guinness World Record: THE YOUNGEST LOOKING OLDEST HUMAN in India — courtesy the several miracles of @ECISVEEP
Waah Modiji Waah #VoteChori pic.x.com/WrReu6R98kAdvertisement
— Pawan Khera (@Pawankhera) August 12, 2025
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Earlier, Rahul alleged that a 70-year-old woman named Shakun Rani voted twice in 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka’s Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha seat. He also claimed that she was registered as a new voter twice in the span of two months.
On Monday, over 300 Opposition MPs took out a protest march from Parliament to the Election Commission of India office in New Delhi over discrepancies in Bihar Special Intensive Revision exercise. However, the protesters were not allowed to reach the poll panel’s office and detained midway before being released shortly afterwads.
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