As the INDIA bloc mounts a concerted campaign demanding accountability on the integrity and veracity of the electoral rolls from the Election Commission of India, Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi accused the ECI today of failing in its duty to enforce the ‘one man, one vote’ principle, while Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge managed to finally be heard — despite considerable din — on the Bihar SIR.

Alluding to his recent allegations of irregularities in the voters’ list per the Congress-led ‘vote chori’ campaign, he said on 12 August, Tuesday, “abhi picture baki hai” (the show’s not over yet). Are there, then, more revelations to come?

At a meeting of Congress general secretaries, in-charges and heads of frontal organisations at the AICC’s 24, Akbar Road office, party sources quoted Gandhi as saying that the Congress lost at least 48 Lok Sabha seats due to “Mahadevpura-like vote chori”.

The sources said the party may bring to the fore a series of revelations about “vote chori” in other seats in the near future.

Yesterday, a protest march by INDIA bloc leaders to Nirvachan Sadan, the ECI headquarters in Delhi, saw prominent leaders — including NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, Rajya Sabha LoP and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Trinamool MP Sagarika Ghose, Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Sanjay Raut and others —  detained by the Delhi Police.

Rueful Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien later on 11 August, Monday, put forward the points the INDIA bloc leaders had wanted to place before the ECI in a social media post beginning ‘Today. What REALLY happened to 300 elected MPs’.