New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- The Karnataka Chief Electoral officer on Thursday hit back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi soon after he alleged large scale vote theft in 2024 Lok Sabha polls asking him to sign the declaration copy with it by evening.

The Karnataka's CEO declaration or oath letter to Rahul Gandhi came soon after he alleged that there was "vote theft" of 1,00,250 votes in a constituency with 11,965 duplicate voters in one assembly segment, 40,009 voters with fake and invalid addresses, 10,452 bulk voters or single address voters, 4,132 voters with invalid photos and 33,692 voters misusing Form 6 of new voters.

The Karnataka chief electoral officer asked the Congress leader to share names of excluded voters and added ineligible ones...