The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi doubled on his claims of “vote thieves” during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on Sunday and said that “clean” voter rolls are compulsory for free and fair elections.
The Congress MP linked his stance with the fight to “protect democracy”.
“Vote theft ‘is an attack on the founding idea of a man, one vote”. A clean voter roll is compulsory for free and fair elections. Our demand from EC is clear – transparent and release digital voter rolls so that people and parties can audit them. This fight is to protect our democracy, “Congress posted on X.
Meanwhile, the Congress party said it will hold a meeting of its general secretaries, in-charges and frontal organization heads on August 11, which would “discuss a nationwide campaign against manipulation and electoral fraud in the voter list.
“The party is also opposing the special intensive amendment (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar, as well as other partners of India block. To discuss further nationwide campaign of the party against manipulation and electoral fraud in the voter list, as LOP SHA was highlighted. It will be held at 4:30 pm on 24 Akbar Road, which was chaired by the President of INC.
On August 7, Rahul Gandhi held a press conference citing internal analysis. The LoP said the Congress had expected to win 16 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, but ended with only nine.
He said that the Congress, while doing zero in Mahadevpura, investigated seven unexpected losses, where he accused him of voting, including 100,250 votes. In Rahul Gandhi, while presenting the research of the Congress on the voting in the Mahadevpura Assembly in Karnataka, accused the “Vote Chori” (vote theft) of 100,250 votes.
“Our internal polling told us that we would win 16 seats in Karnataka;
“We stole 100,250 votes in five different ways. In a building with 50-60 people, voters, fake and invalid addresses in the same address, and wholesale voters duplicate.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has again asked Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to either make an announcement as per rules or apologize to the country for his “false” allegations about voter lists.
ECI said in a statement, “Rahul Gandhi should either announce according to the rules or apologize to the country for his false allegations.” (AI)
