Rahul Gandhi on Sunday (October 18, 2026) said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, and CEC Gyanesh Kumar will pay the price for ‘vote chori’. He spoke in Margao during the ‘Goy Rakhon Yatra’. Meanwhile, protests against the Election Commission continued for the eighth day as the Supreme Court intervened.
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday (October 18, 2026) said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar would “face justice and pay the price” over the alleged ‘vote chori’. Addressing a public meeting in Margao after walking two kilometres with Congress workers during the ‘Goy Rakhon Yatra’, Mr. Gandhi also criticised the use of pellet guns against student protesters, saying India once had a world-class education system.
Meanwhile, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke, who was placed under preventive arrest by the Delhi Police, was released by a Delhi court on Saturday (October 17) after signing a peace bond. Sporadic protests led by women activists continued for the eighth day against the Chief Election Commissioner and police action.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear academician and columnist Apoorvanand Jha, who has submitted that equating the right to peaceful protest with a breach of peace is unwarranted and a ploy by the Central government and the Delhi Police to enable preventive detentions. Separately, the Congress said on Sunday (October 18, 2026) that the Election Commission’s decision to provide “readable” electoral rolls to parties was the result of nationwide protests, and reiterated that CEC Gyanesh Kumar must go and the SIR be suspended immediately.
In London, members of the Indian diaspora staged a counter-protest in support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (October 16, 2026) (local time), opposing demonstrations by the Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) and other like-minded groups outside the Indian High Commission.