New Delhi, July 23 (UNI) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi today reiterated his allegation that elections in India were being “stolen”, calling it a “reality”.
Talking to reporters during the INDIA protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, outside in the Parliament complex, Gandhi claimed that his party had found out how the BJP manipulated the voter lists in Karnataka during the Lok Sabha elections.
Claiming that the Congress party has done some research in Karnataka, Gandhi said, “The party carried out deep and detailed study, choosing one constituency to find out how the BJP was stealing the elections”.
He said that it took six months for the party and eventually everything came out in “black and white”.
Gandhi again accused the BJP of “stealing the elections in Maharashtra with the support of the Election Commission of India”.
“Nearly one crore voters were added to the electoral rolls within a span of a few months in the state between the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabha elections,” Gandhi alleged.
Accusing the Election Commission of colluding with the BJP, he stated that when the Congress requested machine-readable, digital copies of the voter lists, the Commission declined.
He further alleged that when the party demanded video recordings, the rules were altered.
Gandhi alleged that having realised that its “game plan of stealing the elections had been exposed”, the BJP had now taken a different route in Bihar by getting voters deleted from the electoral rolls in order to prepare a new voter list that suits its interests.
