Elections being ‘stolen’ in India: Rahul Gandhi after EC flags 52 lakh missing voters in Bihar
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that “elections are being stolen in India”, reported ANI.
The leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha was answering a question about the Election Commission’s statement that more than 52.3 lakh voters were not found at their addresses during the ongoing electoral roll revision exercise.
Stating that it was not just a question about the exercise in Bihar, he repeated his allegations that the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections were marked by fraud.
“We asked the ECI to show the voter’s list, but they refused,” said the Congress leader. “We asked them to show videography, but they changed the rules of videography. One crore new voters were added in Maharashtra.”
He also claimed that the Congress had “caught a huge theft” in Karnataka, which he will show in “black and white” to the Election Commission.
“Now, what they are doing is that they have deleted the voters, and a new voter list will be brought,” Gandhi said while speaking about the voter roll revision in Bihar.
Gandhi and the Congress have repeatedly alleged that there was “industrial-scale rigging involving the capture of our national institutions” in the Maharashtra polls held in November.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance had defeated the Maha Vikas Aghadi, which includes the Congress, in the polls.
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