Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also joined the campaign push, sharing the “booth par vote chori” video on X and echoing the party’s central message: “The theft of your vote is theft of your rights, theft of your identity.”

“Save your right to vote, Raise your voice against vote theft,” she said.

The video made by the Congress depicts a family entering a polling booth with two people telling them that their votes have already been cast by them and it ends with the two persons casting fake votes showing a thumbs up to an officer sitting at the table with ‘election chori aayog’ display plate on his table.

The Congress on Tuesday had claimed that “vote chori” was a “do-or-die” issue for it, and announced a roadmap to take its allegations to the people through various activities, including taking out ‘Loktantra bachao mashaal marches’ on 14 August evening.

The Opposition party also claimed that as more “evidence” of “vote chori” was coming to the fore, it seemed that it was not mere theft but “dacoity”.

The assertion was made after Kharge held a meeting with party general secretaries, in-charges and heads of its frontal organisations.

The meeting was attended by the likes of former party chief Rahul Gandhi and general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, K.C. Venugopal, Sachin Pilot, Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, Ghulam Ahmad Mir, as well as treasurer Ajay Maken.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Congress leader and AICC in-charge of National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) Kanhaiya Kumar had said a “big issue” of “vote chori” has come to the fore.

“Rahul Gandhi ji has put forward the truth with evidence on how democracy is being throttled,” he had said.

Kumar had said that going forward, the Congress will take this to the people with three important programmes.