Banglore : In a no-holds-barred attack on the Election Commission (EC), Congress MP Rahul Gandhi alleged that the poll watchdog colluded with the BJP to rig the Lok Sabha elections in the country. Gandhi alleged that fake people were being added to voter lists and attempted to validate his point by showing the Karnataka electoral rolls.
The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha claimed there was “bhayankar chori” (massive theft) of votes in the Mahadevapura assembly segment of Bangalore Central Lok Sabha seat. Gandhi claimed that out of 6.5 lakh votes in the Mahadevapura assembly segment, there was a “vote chori” of over 1 lakh votes.
Bangalore Central saw a close contest in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The Raebareli MP also cast doubts over the Election Commission not giving the voter lists in electronic format, suggesting that doing so would expose its “fraud” within 30 seconds.
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This is a challenge here. This is seven feet of paper. If I want to find out if you have voted twice or if your name occurs twice in the voter list, I have to take your picture, and then I have to compare it to every single bit of paper. It is a very tedious process, he said.
This task took us six months (Mahadevapura claim). If the Election Commission gave us electronic data, it would take us 30 seconds. Why are we being given data like this? So, that it is not analysed…These papers do not allow for optical character recognition,” Gandhi further said.
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