The opposition continued its attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday, alleging that accusing him of working at the behest of the Janata Party (BJP), instigating fast reactions from the pole panel and the leaders of the ruling party asked him to give proof of his allegations.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who claimed on Friday that his party had exposed a “atomic bomb” of evidence of proving the lists of voters, was manipulated on a large scale, repeating his claims on Saturday, saying that he would soon release the figure that would send a shocking through the election system.
“You will look at shockwaves going through the electoral system on releasing this data. It is truly like an atomic bomb,” in the lock in the Lok Sabha, the lock meeting Rahul Gandhi said that the theme ‘constitutional challenges: perspectives and routes’ on the subject of the day on the topic of legal closing of the day.
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Gandhi cited data collected by the Congress from an assembly constituency in Karnataka, where the party physically examined the voters’ photographs and names and reportedly revealed that 150,000 votes were “fake” among the total 65,000 voters. “Of 6.5 lakh voters, we got 1.5 lakhs to be fake. All this is documented; we received physical papers from the Election Commission,” he claimed.
He said: “The truth is that the electoral system in India is already dead. Please remember one thing that the Prime Minister of India gets a very thin majority. If 10-15 seats were rigged, and we suspect that the actual figures are not to be close to 70-80 to 100, he was not the Prime Minister of the country, we were not suspicious.
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Gandhi said that on August 5, he will make public details of “discrepancies” in the voter list in the constituency in Karnataka at Freedom Park in Bengaluru.
Intensifying its attack on ECI, the former Congress chief said, “It is very clear that the institution that protects this (constitution), and defends it, has been removed and it has been taken.”
Gandhi also said that he had no evidence before and that is why he could not give such statements earlier. “But, I am making this statement confidently because I have 100% evidence. And whatever I have shown it has fallen from the chair. He really said how it is possible. But it is possible, it’s happening, literally,” he said.
The Congress has repeatedly accused the ECI of acting like a “biased umpire”, especially in handling the 2024 general elections and several assembly elections.
Later in the day, EC shared Gandhi’s comment on its official X account, saying: “The statements made are misleading and baseless.” Even on Friday, the pole panel called the LOP’s “Atom Bomb” comment “baseless and wild allegations”.
Meanwhile, the BJP once dared Gandhi to explode in the “nuclear bomb of evidence of vote theft”. Defense Minister and BJP President Rajnath Singh said, “Rahul Gandhi says he is in possession of an atomic bomb. If so, he should explode at once. He should just ensure that he himself is out of loss”, Defense Minister and BJP President Rajnath Singh said.
Congress President Mallikrajun Kharge alleged that voters were “changed” in Maharashtra Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. “How can there be nine voters in a small room and nine thousand voters in the same hostel in Maharashtra? Is it the Election Commission or Modi’s puppet,” he asked in a legal competition on Saturday.
Echoing Gandhi’s recent warnings, Kharge said that the pole would follow the accountability for those in the body. “Whether they are serving or retiring, ECI officials will not be spared to break the rules. They are in a dangerous situation – lying to the BJP – and it cannot go on uncontrolled.”
Booting the controversial special intensive amendment (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar, Kharge described the practice as “deliberately”, which is a “intentional” step to separate the poor, marginalized and minorities, even called the ECI a “puppet” for the Narendra Modi-enemy government.
“If 6.5 to 10 million voters are being excluded in a position of 70 million, it is not an error, it is a calculation decision to remove margins from the democratic process.”
Kharge’s comments came a day later when the ECI published an election role for the pole-bound Bihar after the conclusion of the first phase of Sir. The ECI stated that about the 6.5 million names missing from the roll, there are 2.2 million in the deaths, people who were permanently transferred, which were 3.6 million accounts and people enrolled in many places were attributed to 700,000.
The EC did not respond to the latest allegations, but said in a press note that with a draft role, a list of voters which was part of the electoral role on June 24, but missing from the new draft, shared with political parties. A total of 1.60 lakh booth level agents (BLAS), nominated by district presidents of 12 political parties, are currently participating in the SIR process.
The Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha also alleged that opposition voices, including his own and Gandhi, are regularly in Parliament. He said, “The moment is closed when we try to speak.” “Modi and Shah were happy when the former Rajya Sabha president expelled us. They call it democracy.”
(With PTI input)
