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NEW DELHI: Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Thursday said unweiled a "hydrogen bomb" of grounds connected alleged "vote chori", accusing Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar of shielding those helium claimed had "destroyed Indian democracy.
"Speaking astatine a property league astatine the Indira Bhawan Auditorium, the Leader of Opposition cited Aland constituency successful Karnataka, wherever helium alleged that an effort was made to delete 6,018 votes.Rahul Gandhi made a assertion astir CEC Gyanesh Kumar. "CEC is protecting the radical who person destroyed Indian democracy," Gandhi added."This is I americium saying with coagulated proof," the person of absorption said.Aland is simply a constituency successful Karnataka, and idiosyncratic tried to delete 6,018 votes there, helium claimed.The Congress MP said, "Aland is simply a constituency successful Karnataka. Somebody tried to delete 6018 votes. We don't cognize the full fig of votes that were deleted successful Aland successful the 2023 election. They are overmuch higher than 6,018, but idiosyncratic got caught deleting those 6018 votes, and it was caught by coincidence. What happened was that the booth-level serviceman determination noted that her uncle's ballot was deleted, truthful she checked who deleted her uncle's vote, and she recovered that it was a neighbour who deleted the vote.
She asked her neighbour, but they said I did not delete immoderate vote. Neither the idiosyncratic deleting the ballot nor the idiosyncratic whose ballot was deleted knew. Some different unit hijacked the process and deleted the vote..."This property league came 40 days aft Rahul raised questions connected the electoral result of Bangalore Central Lok Sabha seat, claiming that determination was "chori" (stealing) of 1 lakh votes successful Mahadevapura assembly spot during the 2024 polls.
He had past claimed that the Election Commission was colluding with the BJP, which helium called a “crime” against the Constitution.Earlier, addressing the concluding lawsuit of his Voter Adhikar Yatra connected September 1, Gandhi had said his enactment volition soon travel retired with a "hydrogen bomb" of revelations astir "vote chori" and aft that Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition not beryllium capable to amusement his look to the country.Last month, Gandhi, citing information from the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, had claimed that implicit 1 lakh votes were "stolen" done manipulation successful Mahadevapura assembly conception successful Karnataka, and asserted that "vote chori" is an "atom weaponry connected our democracy".
