Rahul Gandhi On EC: Congress leader and Lok Sabha LoP, Rahul Gandhi, once again attacked the Election Commission on Thursday, accusing the poll body of “colluding with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to steal votes during elections.” This time, the former Congress president came up with documents and explained alleged vote theft with data, displaying on the projector at Indira Bhawan, New Delhi.
“Anti-incumbency is something that hits every single party in every single democracy. But for some reason, the BJP is the only party in a democratic framework that basically does not suffer this idea of anti-incumbency. Exit polls, opinion polls saying one thing, you saw in the Haryana election, you saw in the Madhya Pradesh election, and then suddenly the result goes in a completely different direction with massive swings. This also included our own internal polling, which is quite sophisticated. So, polling was showing us something, opinion polls were showing us something, regular polls were showing us something, and suddenly we are finding the result is in the opposite direction,” he alleged.
Voter Turnout Jumped Abruptly: Gandhi On Maharashtra Poll
In Maharashtra, the addition of more voters in 5 months than in 5 years raised our suspicions and then a huge jump in voter turnout after 5 pm, Gandhi alleged.
“Very suspicious. We found that between the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabha, one crore new voters came into the game. We went to the Election Commission and wrote this article, and the crux of our argument was that the Maharashtra election was stolen,” he claimed.
“What is the crux of the problem? Voter list is the property of this country. The Election Commission refuses to give us the Voterlist and then something very interesting they did. They said we are going to destroy the CCTV footage. This was surprising to us because there was a question in Maharashtra about a massive voting after 5.30 PM for the numbers to add up. Our people knew that in the polling booths, no such thing happened. There was no massive voting after 5.30 pm. These two things made us believe with reasonable certainty that the Election Commission of India was colluding with the BJP to steal elections,” Gandhi explained with graphics.
Here Are The Kye Takeaways From The Rahul Gandhi’s Event
– Maharashtra results confirmed our suspicion that assembly election was ‘stolen’, says Gandhi.
– Not giving machine readable voter list convinced us that EC colluded with BJP to ‘steal’ elections in Maharashtra, alleges the Congres.
– Out of 6.5 lakh votes in Mahadevapura assembly seat in Karnataka, there was ‘vote chori’ of over 1 lakh votes, he said.
– Congress research found over one lakh duplicate voters, invalid addresses, bulk voters in Mahadevapura constituency in Karnataka, said Gandhi.
– There is a huge ‘criminal fraud’ being perpetrated across country by EC, party in power, alleges Rahul Gandhi.
– This crime of ‘election fraud’ is being committed against Constitution, it is being done at huge scale across country, alleges Gandhi.
– PM only needed to ‘steal’ 25 seats to stay in power in 2024; BJP won 25 seats with margin less than 33,000 votes in LS poll, alleges Congress leader.
– For us CCTV footage and voters’ list is now evidence in crime, and EC is busy trying to ‘destroy’ it, alleges Gandhi.