On 2026-10-18 Rahul Gandhi took the stage at a rally in Margao, Goa, and leveled a direct accusation against three top officials. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans the vote theft, Home Minister Amit Shah operationalizes it, and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar implements it. The allegation framed the electoral process as a coordinated scheme in which each figure plays a distinct role: Modi designs the strategy, Shah puts it into action, and Kumar carries it out through the election machinery. Gandhi warned that the Congress would confront Modi, Shah and Kumar in the forthcoming 2027 Goa assembly elections, signalling that the accusation would become a central plank of his campaign narrative.
Later the same day, Gandhi addressed a ‘Save Goa’ gathering in Madhavnagar, South Goa. There he asserted that Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and a figure identified as Jayant Kumar had stayed up late at night and, in doing so, had increased the price of salt. The statement linked the trio to a nocturnal effort to manipulate a basic commodity, suggesting that the price rise was not a market outcome but the result of deliberate, after‑hours action. Gandhi also said that the BJP had devised a system to channel subsidies to owners of assets worth 100 crore rupees, implying that the party’s fiscal policies favour the wealthy while ordinary citizens bear the cost of essential goods.
Now Maha-Loser Rahul Ghandy calls Gujarat Model as Vote-Chori Model. Claims BJP winning Gujarat with Vote-Chori. 👉BJP won Gujarat assembly (182 seats) 1995: 121 1998:117 2002:127 2007: 117 2012:115 2017: 99 2022:156 👉EVMs & last SIR Gujarat: 2002 Conclusion: BJP has been winning Gujarat Convincingly without EVM, with EVM, before SIR & after SIR AND CONgress is losing Pathetically without EVM, with EVM, before SIR & after SIR since 1995. Introspect sometime, Rahul Ghandy, instead of crying foul to hide your failures. That may actually help CONgress. Learn how to govern & not allow Anti-incumbency even after 31 yrs, especially when CONgress loses states even after just 5 yrs of coming to power.
In the same Madhavnagar address, Gandhi accused the BJP of constructing a mechanism that directs subsidies specifically to those holding 100 crore rupees in assets. The figure of 100 crore rupees appears as the threshold for eligibility in the alleged scheme. By tying the subsidy programme to this wealth bracket, Gandhi framed the accusation as a critique of what he described as a pro‑rich bias in government policy, contrasting it with the impact of the alleged salt‑price increase on everyday consumers.
Gandhi and his team participated in the gathering and then walked a distance of 1 kilometre alongside approximately 100 workers.
The Madhavnagar event was billed as a ‘Save Goa’ rally. Gandhi and his team participated in the gathering and then walked a distance of 1 kilometre alongside approximately 100 workers. The walk was presented as a show of solidarity with labourers and as a visual demonstration of the Congress’s commitment to grassroots issues in the state.
Gandhi’s remarks in both rallies were not isolated criticisms; they were linked to an electoral timetable. He explicitly stated that the Congress will deal with Modi, Shah and the election commissioner in the upcoming 2027 Goa assembly elections. This forward‑looking statement positioned the accusations as part of a broader strategy to challenge the incumbent leadership at the state level, suggesting that the party intends to turn the allegations into a campaign issue when voters go to the polls in 2027.