Rajya Sabha lawmaker Sanjay Raut on Saturday endorsed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of “vote theft” by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and claimed that 90 per cent of Mahayuti legislators won due to “vote chori,” news agency ANI reported.

The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) Member of Parliament’s (MP’s) remarks came two days after the Leader of Opposition alleged manipulation of electorate in Karnataka’s Aland Assembly Constituency, where he claimed approximately 6,000 votes were deleted. Earlier this year, Gandhi had also accused the Election Commission of deleting around 1 lakh names from the Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha constituency rolls, facilitating BJP’s alleged rigging of elections.