Rahul Gandhi thanks EC for providing 'unique experience' of having tea with Bihar's 'dead' voters

"I have had many interesting experiences... but never before have I had tea with 'dead people'. For this unique experience, thank you Election Commission!" he said on X.

The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha also shared a four-minute video interaction with the seven 'dead' voters, in which he asked them how they discovered the Election Commission had 'killed' them.

One of the 'dead' said they found out only after the poll panel released a draft list of 65 lakh excluded names.

"But I am alive... I have come to declare I am not dead," he told Gandhi, "And sir, in one panchayat, there are at least 50 others who are not 'dead'".

The Congress leader was further told there were others, stuck in a similar circumstance, who had not yet reached the meeting.

Gandhi assured them that he would not allow 'vote chori', or the stealing of votes, which became the opposition's battle cry before the Bihar election.

The Congress later named all seven 'dead' voters - Ramikbal Ray, Harendra Ray, Lalmuni Devi, Vachiya Devi, Lalwati Devi, Punam Kumari, and Munna Kumar, all of whom live in Raghopur.

Rahul Gandhi has been leading the allegation of a 'collusion' between the poll panel and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. He alleged that the two conspired to commit voter fraud in Karnataka and Maharashtra last year, and are trying to do the same for the Bihar election.

The EC has rejected the claims and demanded that Gandhi submit proof of his allegations or apologise to the nation.

In a strong rebuttal last Friday, it said the Congress was trying to "mislead" the people as they tried to mislead the Supreme Court in 2018, referring to part veteran Kamal Nath's plea.