Congress seeks copies of voter lists, meeting to discuss Maharashtra poll issues

They also added that a similar plea by the party was dismissed by the Supreme Court in 2019.

The report added that while Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been demanding a machine-readable digital copy of the electoral roll for the past seven months, poll body sources said the party’s demand is “not new.”

"Rather, it forms part of a strategy by the political party for well over eight years, a fact that appears to have been selectively obscured in the present representation," an EC source told PTI

The news agency, citing Election Commission sources, reported that while Rahul Gandhi’s renewed demand is in line with the Congress party’s long-standing position, it is “not tenable within the contours of the prevailing legal framework.”