Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat have “hijacked” the country with the help of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar by carrying out “vote chori”, and asserted that action will be taken against all of them for committing “treason”.
Nobody is going to escape accountability, Mr.
Gandhi said.
I am standing here to protect democracy in the country. “Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Mohan Bhagwat and CEC Gyanesh Kumar have finished off democracy in the country. The whole country believes this; the youth of the country also believe this. The police people who were stopping me are also saying this. The reality is known to everyone,” Mr. “We represent crores of Indians. Why aren’t the Election Commissioners meeting us? Why is the police stopping and threatening us? Mr. Follow live updates here .
Along with me, 300 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs had come and they are also trying to protect democracy,” the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said, addressing reporters from inside the Akashwani Bhawan premises where he was in a standoff with police in a bid to reach the Election Commission office. Gandhi said more than 300 Opposition MPs marched from Parliament to meet the Election Commissioners.
“I am not interested in what the BJP says. Gandhi said. Earlier reporting noted: In a media interaction, Rahul Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat hijacked the nation through ‘vote chori’, and Gyanesh Kumar helped them. Earlier reporting noted: The BJP claimed that Congress had become “intoxicated” by its defeat in several states and questioned its alleged support for giving voting rights to “absent, shifted, dead and duplicate voters” without verification.
Earlier, in a post on X, Mr. Earlier reporting noted: The BJP also countered allegations, saying the march to the EC office was yet another attempt by the Congress and its allies to create anarchy and relaunch Rahul Gandhi.
They were helped by Gyanesh Kumar, Mr. Gandhi added. “There will be action against them. None of them will be spared, be it PM Modi, Home Minister Shah, RSS chief Bhagwat or CEC Gyanesh Kumar. What has been done to our country is treason. Nobody is going to escape,” the former Congress chief stressed.
He alleged that Prime Minister Modi, Shah and Bhagwat have hijacked the country through “vote chori”.
