Rahul Gandhi addressed Congress Working Committee members in Delhi on Tuesday, 27 September 2026, and called out the party’s lingering indifference to the vote‑theft narrative he has championed for the past two years.
He argued that the commission’s repeated challenges to the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, which began in October 2025, reveal a systematic failure to involve the Election Commission in the process.
The Election Commission countered that its internal technical notes and queries are routine in a multi‑member body, asserting that all final SIR decisions were taken unanimously and legally sanctioned.
Gandhi slammed senior cadres for being preoccupied with analysis rather than raising the EVM issue, urging them to confront the matter with confidence. Some leaders reportedly suggested staging large protests to pressure the commission, while a faction remains skeptical.
Sources inside the party say that monitoring mechanisms have tightened, with every leader’s public posts and internal comments scrutinized to ensure alignment with Gandhi’s campaign on vote theft. The next step will be a formal policy statement slated for presentation at the following CWC session on 4 October 2026.