Sam Pitroda, chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress, has once again sparked controversy with his comments on Indian elections. He claimed that polls in India are rigged and alleged that the Election Commission and the Supreme Court do not acknowledge this.
“…People must demand free and fair elections, which is the starting point for democracy. You know that elections are manipulated. We have seen the proof, we understand it. I’ve been saying it for a long time,” he said, before stressing, “Some people take it seriously, some don’t take it very seriously.”
He added, “Local commission and all the senior people who work there know exactly what is going on. But you don’t get hearing. Election commission doesn’t believe, Supreme Court doesn’t believe.”
“What do you do?” he asked, before stating, “I mean, look, you don’t have freedom to go talk to universities. That’s your property. But that’s the India we live in. And everybody loves it. More power to them. What can I say?”
Serial offender Uncle Sam Pitroda does it again
— Shehzad Jai Hind (Modi Ka Parivar) (@Shehzad_Ind) October 19, 2025
Blames EC and even SUPREME COURT & JANTA from foreign soil !
First Rahul Gandhi now Uncle Sam
Their agenda is simple:
In BJP Virodh undermine Bharat..
From Sena to Sanvidhan -they create doubts and push propaganda as part of… pic.twitter.com/z63dIi9YoK
Shehzad Poonawalla calls him a ‘serial offender’
BJP National Spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla reacted to Sam Pitroda’s remarks, saying that the “serial offender” has done it again.
“Blames EC and even the Supreme Court and the Janta from foreign soil. First Rahul Gandhi and now Sam,” he said on X (formerly Twitter).
Poonawalla went on to claim that they have a simple agenda to “undermine Bharat” just to oppose the BJP. “From Sena to Sanvidhan -they create doubts and push propaganda as part of a Bharat Badnaami Brigade,” he went on to say.
“Recently, the SC slammed the Congress ecosystem on SIR for giving a fake affidavit! We have seen no appeals by them against the voter list in Bihar. In Maharashtra, too, they could provide no evidence and SC dismissed allegations,” he said, before claiming, “All they do is hit and run!”
‘Sam Pitroda sounds like a broken record’
BJP’s national spokesperson Tom Vadakkan said that Sam Pitroda takes cues from his master to “defame every institution in India”.
“Sam Pitroda sounds like a broken record, playing the same as Master’s Voice, what is an institutional toolkit borrowed from Solace to defame every institution in India, the Election Commission, the Supreme Court,” Vadakkan said on Times Now.
He added, “It is the same Sam Pitroda who said, give me an EVM machine and I’ll prove it can be hacked. It’s almost how many years now? Nothing happened. He was not able to prove a thing because there was nothing at all.”
Sam Pitroda’s previous controversies
Last month, he said that he “felt at home” during his visit to Pakistan and argued that India’s foreign policy should adopt a neighbour-first approach. This followed his February statement in which he claimed that India overstates the threat from China, and went as far as suggesting that New Delhi should stop seeing “Beijing is an enemy”.
