Rahul Gandhi Drops ‘H-Files’: Claims 20 Lakh Voters Removed to Fix Haryana Polls

On November 5, 2025, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi detonated his long-teased “hydrogen bomb” at a packed press conference in New Delhi’s Congress headquarters, just 48 hours before Bihar’s first polling phase. Dubbed “The H Files,” the dossier uses the Election Commission of India’s own Form-6 and Form-7 records to allege that Congress was systematically robbed of a landslide victory in the 2024 Haryana assembly elections. Gandhi claimed over 20 lakh voters—predominantly from Scheduled Caste, Muslim, and rural Congress-leaning booths—were deleted under the guise of “cleaning” electoral rolls, while 15% additional names were mysteriously added in BJP strongholds. “This is not clerical error; this is a meticulously executed blueprint to steal elections booth by booth,” he declared, projecting infographics of booth-level deletions on giant screens.

Gandhi directly addressed Gen-Z voters, warning that the theft extends beyond ballots: “Your jobs, reservations, education, and democratic future are being snatched.” He issued a seven-day ultimatum to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to respond or face nationwide agitation. The timing is deliberate—Bihar’s seven-phase polling begins November 7, and the state’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has already erased 1.5 crore names, mostly from opposition strongholds. “If Haryana was the pilot, Bihar is the full-scale rollout,” Gandhi charged, linking it to SIR expansions now underway in 12 more states and UTs.

This marks Gandhi’s third high-voltage exposé. In August, he flagged suspicious voter additions in Karnataka’s Bengaluru segments during the Lok Sabha polls. In September, he alleged a nationwide deletion scam targeting 1.8 crore opposition voters. Today’s “H Files” build on those, with booth-wise spreadsheets, SMS records of deleted voters, and affidavits from affected families. Flanked by RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav and other INDIA bloc leaders, Gandhi invoked their 16-day Voter Adhikar Yatra across Bihar, where they collected 50,000 complaints of wrongful deletions. “The same forces that murdered Mahatma Gandhi are now murdering the Constitution,” he thundered to deafening applause.

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The Election Commission swiftly dismissed the allegations as “motivated and baseless,” demanding Gandhi submit evidence via sworn affidavit—prompting his retort that he is using ECI’s own data and has already sworn allegiance to the Constitution. BJP spokespersons branded the conference “pre-poll hysteria” to cover Congress’s electoral failures. Yet independent election watchdogs like Vote for Democracy corroborated similar patterns in Haryana, noting 68% of deletions occurred in Congress-won or closely contested seats.

With Bihar’s 243 seats hanging in the balance and anti-incumbency brewing against Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), the H-Files have electrified the final campaign stretch. Rahul closed with a rallying cry: “Gen-Z, your vote is your weapon—guard it with your life.” Whether this ignites reform or backlash, one truth is undeniable: India’s electoral battlefield has never been fiercer.

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