Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday (May 6, 2026) alleged that every sixth BJP MP in the Lok Sabha secured his or her seat through “vote chori” and asked if they should be labelled “ghuspethiya” in that party's own parlance.

"Through vote theft, sometimes individual seats are stolen, and at other times, an entire government. Of the 240 BJP MPs in the Lok Sabha, roughly every sixth MP secured seat through vote chori," the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha said in a post in Hindi on X.

"They are not hard to identify — should we, in the BJP's own parlance, label them 'ghuspethiya'? And what of Haryana? There, the entire government itself is a 'ghuspethiya'. The very institutions they keep in their pockets - the ones they manipulate to distort voter lists and the electoral process — are themselves 'remote-controlled'," Mr. Gandhi said, in a scathing attack on the BJP.