SIT probe into vote theft found Rs 80 paid to delete each voter in Karnataka’s Aland: Congress

Days after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged large scale “vote theft” in Karnataka and several other states, the Opposition party on Thursday said the SIT probe has found evidence that Rs 80 was paid to a data operating centre for filing each fake voter deletion request in the Aland seat.

“A major scam has come to light in the ‘vote theft’ incident in Aland, Karnataka. SIT has found evidence that a payment of 80 rupees was made for deleting each voter from the Aland seat,” the Congress said in a post on X.

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According to the Congress, the Karnataka SIT investigation revealed that in the alleged ‘vote theft’ scam, fake applications were filed to delete the names of 6,018 voters, for which a total payment of 4.8 lakh rupees was made.

“These fake applications for voter deletion were being sent from a data operating center in Kalaburagi,” the Congress claimed.

Following Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s alleged ‘vote theft’ expose in Karnataka’s Aland Constituency, Karnataka formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigation the allegations.

During its investigation, the Congress said, the SIT had conducted raids at the premises of BJP leader Subhash Guttedar, his sons, and their chartered accountant, recovering 7 laptops and several mobile phones.

The Congress party said that Aland was just one small example of the large scale “vote theft” and the revalation of where else the BJP has allegedly carried out such ‘vote theft’ is yet to come.

“This ‘vote theft’ by BJP is a direct attack on democracy—where the rights of the poor and marginalized are being snatched away, and their voices are being suppressed,” the party added.