Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday made explosive claims about the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, alleging that the polls were rigged to favor the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Speaking at the Annual Legal Conclave 2025, Gandhi stated that the election system in India is “already dead” and that his party has proof to substantiate these claims.
Gandhi claimed that former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was sent to threaten him during the farm laws protest.
“Arun Jaitley ji was sent to me to threaten me. He told me ‘if you carry on opposing the govt, fighting the farm laws, we will have to act against you’,” Gandhi alleged.
He further claimed that Jaitley’s threat was an attempt to intimidate him into stopping his opposition to the government’s policies.
The Congress leader pointed to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, where the BJP won with a slim majority.
Gandhi said, “If 15 seats were (not) rigged, he (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) would not have been the Prime Minister of India.” Gandhi also highlighted the significant number of new voters who appeared during the Maharashtra assembly polls, alleging that those votes were largely in favour of the BJP.
Gandhi claimed that his party has “open-and-shut proof” of electoral malpractice, which it will reveal soon.
“We are going to prove to you in the coming few days how a Lok Sabha election can be rigged and was rigged,” he stated. The Congress leader equated the potential impact of this evidence to an “atom bomb” that would expose the Election Commission of India’s involvement in vote theft.
The Election Commission of India has dismissed Gandhi’s allegations as “baseless” and “irresponsible.” The poll body stated that its officials should continue working impartially and transparently, unaffected by daily threats or false statements.