India, Sept. 19 -- Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday intensified his attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of blocking a probe into alleged voter deletions in Karnataka's Aland constituency.

"After our Aland candidate exposed the fraud, the local EC official filed an FIR, but the CID investigation has been - BLOCKED by CEC. The Karnataka CID has written 18 letters in 18 months requesting all incriminating evidence - BLOCKED by CEC. The Karnataka EC has sent multiple requests to ECI to comply with the investigation - BLOCKED by CEC," the Congress leader wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

He further alleged that if the "vote theft" had not been detecte...