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Modi is PM by theft, says Rahul; asks 5 questions to EC

Congress President Kharge claimed that his 2019 Lok Sabha election defeat from Gulbarga constituency was also result of 'electoral fraud'.

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Congress leaders including Kharge, Karnataka CM, Dy CM at Vote Adhikar Rally. Photo: PTI

Bengaluru, 8 Aug

Flagging of the ‘Vote Adhikar Rally’ in City, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that Narendra Modi is “a Prime Minister with a margin of 25 Lok Sabha seats,” and that “if we get the electronic voter data from across the country then we will prove that the Indian Prime Minister is holding the post by theft”.

The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha posed five questions to the Election Commission.

“Why are you not giving voter lists in digital machine-readable format to the people of India? The next question was, “Why are you destroying video evidence? Why is EC committing massive fraud in the voter lists? The other 2 questions were, “Why is EC threatening Opposition instead of answering our questions? Why is EC behaving like an agent of the BJP?”

Gandhi added, “In the (2024) Lok Sabha election, our alliance won in Maharashtra. But after 4 months, the BJP won the Maharashtra Assembly election. It was a surprising election result. When we tried to find out, we learnt that 1 crore new voters cast their votes; 1 crore new voters who had never voted in the LS polls voted in the assembly election in Maharashtra.”

“The votes of our alliance did not reduce and we got exactly the same number of votes we had in the Lok Sabha election. The new voters went to the BJP in the Assembly election,” he added.

Rahul claimed that in State, Congress surveys showed them winning 15 to 16 seats in the Lok Sabha election.

“Our polling showed that we were ahead in 16 seats but we won nine seats. Then we started questioning. Did we really lose elections? We were demanding the EC a soft copy voter list but they were rejecting it. When we demanded video (recordings), they rejected it and changed the law,” Gandhi said.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that his 2019 Lok Sabha election defeat from Gulbarga constituency was also result of "electoral fraud".

"I have won over 12 elections in my life except the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, which I lost for the first time in my life due to the election fraud,” Kharge said.

He alleged that the BJP engaged in "bogus voting", securing up to 20,000 votes in each of the five assembly segments under the Gulbarga Lok Sabha seats in 2019 Parliamentary election.

“The same thing happened in Goa, Maharashtra and also in Manipur. They (BJP) never won any election, but they paid people and purchased the government,” he said.