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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused the Election Commission on Saturday of deleting the evidence when it was required to provide the answers after the poll body instructed officers to destroy CCTV, webcasting and video footage of the elections after 45 days.

In a post on X, the Congress leader said, “Voter list? Will not give machine-readable format. CCTV footage? Hidden by changing the law. Election photos and videos? Now they will be deleted in 45 days, not 1 year. The one who was supposed to provide answers - is the one deleting the evidence.”

वोटर लिस्ट?
Machine-readable फ़ॉर्मेट नहीं देंगे।

CCTV फुटेज?
कानून बदलकर छिपा दी।

चुनाव की फोटो-वीडियो?
अब 1 साल नहीं, 45 दिनों में ही मिटा देंगे।

जिससे जवाब चाहिए था - वही सबूत मिटा रहा है।

साफ़ दिख रहा है - मैच फिक्स है। और फिक्स किया गया चुनाव, लोकतंत्र के लिए ज़हर है। pic.twitter.com/eYXAykO04p

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 21, 2025

“It is clear that the match is fixed. And a fixed election is poison for democracy,” the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha posted in Hindi.

Gandhi has been demanding the voter lists, poll data and the video footage from the poll body and alleged irregularities in the Maharashtra assembly polls. The reaction of Congress leaders came after the poll body instructed the state poll officers to destroy the CCTV, webcasting and video footage of the election process after 45 days if the verdict is not challenged in courts within that period, saying it feared the use of its electronic data to create malicious narratives.

In a letter to state chief electoral officers on May 30, the EC said it has issued instructions for recording various stages of the election process through multiple recording devices – photography, videography, CCTV, and webcasting – during the election process.