New Delhi : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday stepped up his ‘vote chori’ (vote theft) attack against the BJP and the Election Commission, alleging massive voter fraud in the 2024 Haryana assembly elections. He alleged there was “systemic manipulation” to turn a Congress victory into defeat. However, sources in the Election Commission dismissed Rahul Gandhi’s claims, saying there had been zero appeals filed against the state’s electoral rolls.
They added that only 22 election petitions were currently pending in the Punjab and Haryana High Court out of 90 assembly seats, indicating limited legal challenge to the results. The Congress leader presented slides showing alleged discrepancies in voter rolls, including a striking example: a Brazilian model’s photograph reportedly appearing multiple times in the electoral rolls under different names like Seema, Sweety, and Saraswati, allegedly to cast ballots 22 times.
All exit polls pointed to a Congress victory in Haryana, he said. For the first time in Haryana’s history, postal ballots didn’t match the actual votes. This had never happened before. A plan was put in motion to convert Congress’ landslide victory into a loss. He also took a swipe at Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini, pointing to a post-election video. He further alleged that thousands of BJP workers and leaders were registered to vote in both Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
A BJP leader living at house no.150 — the vice chairman of Palwal Zila Parishad — has 66 voters registered at his address. One man has 500 voters registered at his home, he claimed. The Congress MP said, “Dalchand, a BJP leader, is voting in both UP and Haryana. BJP sarpanch in Mathura, Prahlad, is doing the same. The number is in thousands. Gandhi also pointed to irregularities involving addresses listed as ‘House no. Zero’, a designation meant for the homeless.
We physically found men marked as House no. Zero who were actually living in their homes,” he said. We cross-checked. The chief election commissioner is lying to the people of India. This is not a mistake and not about homeless people. The Gandhi scion said he was “questioning not just the EC, but the democratic process itself”. He repeated his charge that the poll body and the BJP were in cahoots.
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