Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Election Commission’s refusal to provide a machine-readable voter list convinced the Opposition that the poll body had colluded with the BJP to “thieve” the elections in Maharashtra.
Citing a sharp growth in registered electorate and an alleged spike in turnout on the day, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha stated the numbers did not add up and raised critical doubts around the integrity of the electoral method.
Rahul Gandhi slams EC for stealing Maharashtra polls
“In Maharashtra, more citizens in 5 months than in 5 years raised our suspicions, after which a big bounce in voter turnout after 5 pm,” Gandhi said. “In Vidhan Sabha, our alliance was wiped and in Lok Sabha, our alliance sweeps. Very suspicious,” he said.
He claimed that one crore new voters appeared between the two elections. “We observed that between Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabha, one crore new citizens got here into the game. We went to the Election Commission and wrote this article, and the crux of our argument was that the Maharashtra election become stolen.”
Congress Leader says Red flag after EC destroy CCTV footage
According to Rahul Gandhi, the refusal to post the voter list was a red flag. The voter listing is the asset of this country. The Election Commission refuses to give us the voter list,” he said. He also pointed to the Election Commission’s alleged choice to smash polling-day surveillance footage, calling it deeply suspicious.
“They said we are going to smash the CCTV photos. This become unexpected to country because there has been a question in Maharashtra about a massive vote casting after 5.30 pm for the numbers to add up.”
“Our peoples knew that in the polling cubicles, no such part happened. There was no big balloting after 5.30 pm,” he said. “These things made us agree with reasonable actuality that the Election Commission of India was colluding with the BJP to scouse borrow elections,” Gandhi said.
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