Election Commission is acting like BJP's agent: Rahul slams
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Bengaluru: Slamming the Election Commission of India (ECI) further, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi accused the national poll body of acting like an “agent of the BJP”. The News Minute reported that he posed five questions to answer instead of threatening his faction.
The questions were: why the Commission refused to share voter rolls in a machine-readable format, why it destroyed polling booth video footage, why it allowed “massive fraud” in voter lists, and why it was intimidating the Opposition rather than responding to concerns.
Speaking at a protest rally in Bengaluru’s Freedom Park in Karnataka, the Congress leader held up a copy of the Constitution and said that the fundamental idea of the Constitution is that one man, one vote.
“During the previous election, we protected the Constitution and the elections… The foundational idea of the Constitution is that of one man, one vote,” TNM quoted.
He reminded that when the Congress party won the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra but lost the Assembly elections there, he said it was surprising that one crore voters, who had not voted in an election just some months before, magically turned up to vote during a second election.
He also pointed out that the INDIA bloc’s vote share did not decrease between the Parliamentary and Assembly elections in the state.
She said that in an investigation into the irregularities Congress conducted regarding Lok Sabha polls in the Bengaluru Central Parliamentary constituency, it found out five kinds of vote “theft”.
The party found 11,965 duplicate voters (people who had voted multiple times and in different states), 40,000 voters whose addresses were invalid, or marked “0” or “-”; 4,132 people who had no photo or the photo was so small that the person’s face was simply not visible, Rahul said. Also, he said that the probe revealed that 10,452 voters were found to be living in groups of about 80 or 100 people with the address of a tiny room, which was often owned by or linked to a BJP leader. He also claimed that 34,000 people whose ages were 80-90 years were found to be first-time voters.
