Once a person registers on the portal, a certificate is issued in his or her name, which states that they stand against “vote chori“. ‘I support Rahul Gandhi’s demand for digital voter rolls from the EC,’ the certificate reads.

The portal also gives people the option to call a phone number and fill in the link in the SMS to register. The certificate bears the signatures of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress MP and general-secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal and treasurer Ajay Maken.

Several Congress leaders and supporters had registered on the portal and shared the certificates on social media.

Gandhi cited data from the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to claim over 1 lakh votes were “stolen” through five types of manipulation in Mahadevapura Assembly segment.

Addressing reporters while taking them through an online presentation, Gandhi had said his party analysed voter data from Mahadevapura Assembly segment because it had struck the party as suspicious that while it won the five other Assembly segments within Bengaluru Central, its margin of defeat in Mahadevapura was so large that it offset the wins in all the other segments.

“We started examining the details and discovered that approximately 1,00,250 votes were stolen in the Mahadevapura segment,” he had claimed.

Gandhi had also alleged that an analysis of Mahadevapura segment threw up 11,965 duplicate voters, 40,009 with fake and invalid addresses, 10,452 bulk voters or single-address voters, 4,132 voters with invalid photos and 33,692 voters misusing Form 6 meant to enlist new voters.

With PTI inputs