Haryana polls 'stolen', 25 lakh voters were fake in elections: Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Alleging that the 2024 Haryana assembly elections were stolen done manipulation of voters database by Election Commission successful collusion with BJP, person of absorption successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi connected Wednesday presented a heavy dive connected electoral rolls to assertion that astir 25 lakh fake voters, oregon 12.5% of the full 2 crore, participated successful the authorities polls that Congress mislaid by 22,000 votes connected 8 seats and by 1.18 lakh votes successful all.He besides alleged, with a "few testimonies", that 3.5 lakh voters were purged from Haryana's electoral database and that astir of them were Congress sympathisers, going connected to foretell that akin irregularities volition instrumentality spot successful the Bihar polls.Accusing EC, BJP and PM Modi of destroying the foundations of India's democracy, Rahul urged Gen Z and the younker to recognize the quality of predetermination theft - and that BJP govts, including astatine the Centre, are not "legitimate" govts and it is Congress that had won the elections - and "restore our ideology done information and non-violence".Calling his 'vote chori' exposure "H-files" successful spot of the much-awaited "H-bomb", Rahul said the Haryana rolls had 19 lakh bulk voters, 5.21 lakh duplicate voters and 93,000 with invalid addresses. The misuse of Forms 6 and 7 would person apt added different 7-10 lakh fake voters but nary impervious could beryllium provided for the aforesaid due to the fact that EC has since the past property league blocked entree to the information connected elector summation and deletion, helium said.

Citing "documents", Rahul created a flutter by showing a photograph of a registered elector that helium said was really of a Brazilian model, which was utilized to formed votes 22 times successful 10 antithetic booths nether antithetic names similar Sweety, Saraswati, Seema and Vimla. He besides came up with elector names which, helium claimed, appeared 223 and 143 times successful the rolls."Why truthful galore fake aggregate voters? This is to make abstraction truthful that fake voters tin formed votes (in those places)," helium explained."With this benignant of corrupted voters' list, determination is nary accidental of a just election," Rahul said. Similar ballot theft had occurred successful Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra elections.In a important statement, helium said a akin presumption tin beryllium done for Bihar erstwhile information for polls successful the authorities is retired - a fewer persons from Bihar gave "testimonies" astatine his presumption that they were removed from the voters database and not added contempt efforts. Rahul claimed anomalies are much hard to spot due to the fact that the elector lists are provided to parties connected the past day. With canvass outcomes hinging connected a borderline arsenic small arsenic 2-3%, determination tin beryllium nary just predetermination if 8-12% of the voters are fake, helium said.