Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has launched a video on his X deal with to additional push his allegations that the Election Fee (EC) and the BJP “colluded to steal votes”.
He accused the EC of “treason”, and cited Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh as situations to help his cost, including to Maharashtra, Haryana and Karnataka that he spoke about.
He additionally spoke pointedly of the continued Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls in Bihar, due for polls in October-November. “That is institutional theft. The EC desires to assist the BJP, clearly, by recasting the electoral rolls,” he stated.
“Vote chori (theft) isn’t just an electoral rip-off; it’s a main betrayal dedicated in opposition to the Structure and democracy. Let the nation’s culprits hear this: instances will change, punishment will certainly be meted out,” his submit, in Hindi, stated, a day after he held a livecast through which he made a presentation detailing the allegations.
The Election Fee has already requested him to share beneath oath what he referred to as proof.
“My phrase is an oath,” Gandhi, the Chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha, retorted on Thursday. Asking the EC to test its personal knowledge, he stated, “I’ve stated the whole lot in public. And I’ve cited EC’s knowledge.”
He confirmed what he termed examples of 1000’s of faux votes, registered with out actual addresses or in bulk at one; and folks having votes a number of instances. Bangalore Central Lok Sabha phase was illustrative of this, he claimed.
What Rahul Gandhi says in newest video
Within the video on Friday morning, he stated he was born in a political household. His sister Priyanka, who’s a Lok Sabha member like him, and he used to arrange election posters at residence again in 1980, he recalled, talking in Hindi.
“I perceive the election course of deeply — polling cubicles, voter lists, all of it,” he stated.
He reiterated that his social gathering and he had suspicions for some time: “The temper can be a method, and election outcomes would go the opposite manner.” He went on to quote the 2022 meeting elections of Uttarakhand, and the polls in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh held in 2023.
“I noticed clearly; there was terrifying anti-incumbency (in opposition to the BJP) in Madhya Pradesh throughout my Bharat Jodo Yatra. But, we obtained simply 65 seats (of 234) — unattainable!” he stated.
He spoke pointedly of the continued Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls in Bihar, which is due for polls in October-November. “That is institutional theft. The EC desires to assist the BJP, clearly, by recasting the electoral rolls,” he stated.
“Thus far we’ve solely investigated the addition of votes. We are going to subsequent probe the deletions too,” he stated.
A BJP-JDU alliance beneath Nitish Kumar is looking for one other time period in Bihar, whereas the Congress, RJD and different INDIA bloc events have been opposing the SIR.
The SIR course of can be beneath judicial scrutiny for it seeks citizenship proof amongst a number of different paperwork that the depressed courses, particularly, arguably could not have. Opposition events have alleged that it is the BJP’s backdoor technique of taking away the citizenship of Muslims, Dalits and backward communities.
In his video, Rahul Gandhi talked about “poor folks” as those that will probably be affected by the SIR.
“That is treason. There’ll come a time after we will catch you,” he stated, addressing EC and its officers.
The BJP has already dismissed Gandhi’s allegations as marks of his frustration at ballot losses.
