{"id":2176,"date":"2025-08-13T17:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/congress-slams-vote-chori-with-viral-video-mallikarjun-kharge-urges-indians-to-speak-out-against-election-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:55:58","slug":"congress-slams-vote-chori-with-viral-video-mallikarjun-kharge-urges-indians-to-speak-out-against-election-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/congress-slams-vote-chori-with-viral-video-mallikarjun-kharge-urges-indians-to-speak-out-against-election-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Slams \u2018Vote Chori\u2019 with Viral Video; Mallikarjun Kharge Urges Indians to Speak Out Against Election Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congress intensifies its \u201cVote Chori\u201d campaign by releasing a striking video depicting electoral fraud. Party president Mallikarjun Kharge calls on Indians to defend voting rights and protect constitutional integrity.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a major escalation of its electoral integrity campaign, the Indian National Congress on <strong>August 13, 2025<\/strong>, released a poignant video dramatizing <strong>\u201cvote chori\u201d<\/strong> (vote theft). The footage portrays individuals casting fraudulent votes and concludes with a powerful plea: <strong>\\&#8221;Your vote being stolen is your right and identity being stolen.\\&#8221;<\/strong> Congress president <strong>Mallikarjun Kharge<\/strong> reinforced this message, urging citizens to \\&#8221;raise your voice against vote chori\\&#8221; and to <strong>liberate constitutional institutions from the BJP\u2019s grasp<\/strong>. Leaders including <strong>Rahul Gandhi<\/strong>, <strong>Priyanka Gandhi Vadra<\/strong>, and others amplified the campaign on social media, framing the issue as a <strong>\u201cdo-or-die\u201d battle for democracy<\/strong> and announcing a nationwide mobilisation strategy with <strong>torch marches, signature drives, and online petitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress intensifies its \u201cVote Chori\u201d campaign by releasing a striking video depicting electoral fraud. Party president Mallikarjun Kharge calls on Indians to defend voting rights and protect constitutional integrity. In a major escalation of its electoral integrity campaign, the Indian National Congress on August 13, 2025, released a poignant video dramatizing \u201cvote chori\u201d (vote theft)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5,3],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-india","tag-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andhrachronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}