The Election Commission of India on Sunday fact-checked another claim of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, where he pointed out that a voter named Shakun Rani voted twice.
During the Thursday presentation at the AICC headquarters, he showed an electoral roll with tick marks, asserting that it was made by the poll body officials during the time of voting. Now the EC has said that its investigation has proved Shakun Rani voted once, and the document shown by the Lok Sabha LoP was not of the poll body.
What Rahul Gandhi had said?
During his press conference, Gandhi had said, “Let me tell you the story of Shakun Rani. She became a first-time voter. She is 70 years old. She used Form 6 once and a few months later, she used Form 6 again. She had been listed in the voter list twice. And she is listed as a first-time voter. So did Shakun Raji vote or did someone else vote for Shakun Rani? To hide this, CCTV data is not being given to us. And, Shakun Rani’s case is not the only case like this. There are thousands of people who have used Form 6 to put their names 2-3 times in the voter list.”
In a pointed notice to Rahul Gandhi, the poll body also quoted Gandhi’s statement: “Es ID card per o baar vote laga hai, wo jo tick hai, polling booth ke officer ki hai.”
The EC claimed that Shakun Rani herself stated that she voted only once and not twice. The EC also posted the images of the document shown by Gandhi and the document issued by the polling officer, saying that both are different.