On the coronary heart of Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of vote theft in Haryana was the image of a lady whom he claimed to have been on a number of voter IDs with totally different names. India TV tried to uncover the supply of this {photograph} and the id of the girl.
Rahul Gandhi kicked up one other political row on Tuesday, alleging a mss-level vote theft within the 20254 Haryana meeting elections and that the Election Fee colluded with the BJP to safe the occasion’s victory within the state.
At a press convention on Wednesday, Rahul accused the Bharatiya Janata Occasion of electoral malpractice in the course of the Haryana elections, alleging that the identical lady’s {photograph} appeared a number of instances on voter lists throughout totally different polling cubicles.
Who’s the Brazilian mannequin confirmed in a number of voter IDs by Rahul
The occasion started with a picture of a lady proven on a display screen with the caption, “Yeh kaun hai?” Gandhi claimed that the girl was a Brazilian mannequin whose image had been used repeatedly to forged fraudulent votes, calling it a case of vote theft. He additionally displayed a QR code and inspired these current to scan it.
India TV scanned the QR code and it takes to a webpage of Unsplash exhibiting the identical image – a mannequin wearing a blue denim jacket. Unsplash is a well-liked platform for royalty-free inventory photographs.
The {photograph} was credited to photographer Matheus Ferrero and had been downloaded greater than 4 lakh instances and considered over fifty-nine lakh instances on the platform. The mannequin’s title, nevertheless, was not out there, making it unclear who she truly is and whether or not she had any connection to the alleged misuse.
What Rahul Gandhi mentioned concerning the {photograph}
Gandhi claimed that the identical {photograph} appeared 22 instances throughout at the least 10 polling cubicles in Haryana. Talking on the AICC headquarters in New Delhi, he accused the BJP of securing victory by pretend votes and enormous scale manipulation of postal ballots. He mentioned that Congress misplaced the election by about 22,000 votes and alleged that the voter listing was tampered with by utilizing the identical lady’s image below a number of names.
In response, the Election Fee rejected the allegations. It said that the Congress occasion’s personal polling brokers have been current throughout voting, but no objections have been raised on the time. The Fee mentioned that due course of had been adopted and that any complaints ought to have been formally submitted by established procedures.