NEW DELHI: Chief of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday raised sharp questions over the equity of latest elections, alleging large-scale “voter fraud” and accusing the Election Fee of bias. He claimed, “Election Fee colluded with BJP to steal elections in Maharashtra.”Talking at a press briefing, Rahul referred to the latest polling in Maharashtra, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh. He mentioned the ends in Maharashtra confirmed the INDIA bloc’s suspicion of electoral malpractice.
Listed below are the important thing allegations made by Rahul Gandhi-
- “Maharashtra outcomes confirmed our suspicion that meeting election was ‘stolen’,” he mentioned, pointing to attainable
voter listing manipulation and a scarcity of transparency within the course of.
- “The variety of new voters even exceeded the inhabitants of Maharashtra, a really shocking truth. Then there was an enormous spike in voter turnout after 5 years, and everybody noticed it.”
- “The Election Fee would not give us digital knowledge. As a result of they do not need us to look rigorously.”
- “The Election Fee gave us digital knowledge, it will take us 30 seconds. I repeat, for this reason we’re being given knowledge like this, in order that it’s not analysed. These papers don’t permit for optical character recognition. So in case you scan them, you may’t get the information out of them.”
- “Why is the election fee defending these items of paper? EC intentionally gives non-machine-readable papers.”
- Rahul alleged that in Maharashtra, “one crore new voters” appeared on the rolls between the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections. He mentioned that when the INDIA bloc raised the problem with the Election Fee, there was no response.