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Leader of Opposition (LoP) within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the BJP of securing a victory via large-scale electoral rigging within the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections and alleged that the similar could be repeated within the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls after which anyplace the BJP is shedding.
In a publish on X, LoP Gandhi mentioned that, Maharashtra meeting elections in 2024 have been a blueprint for rigging democracy and indexed out the alleged collection during which it was once finished.
“How to steal an election? Maharashtra assembly elections in 2024 were a blueprint for rigging democracy. My article shows how this happened, step by step: Step 1: Rig the panel for appointing the Election Commission. Step 2: Add fake voters to the roll. Step 3: Inflate voter turnout. Step 4: Target the bogus voting exactly where BJP needs to win. Step 5: Hide the evidence,” he mentioned on X.
Terming electoral rigging as poison for democracy, Rahul Gandhi mentioned that rigging damages establishments and destroys public religion within the consequence.
“It’s not hard to see why the BJP was so desperate in Maharashtra. But rigging is like match-fixing – the side that cheats might win the game, but damages institutions and destroy public faith in the result. All concerned Indians must see the evidence. Judge for themselves. Demand answers. Because the match-fixing of Maharashtra will come to Bihar next, and then anywhere the BJP is losing. Match-fixed elections are a poison for any democracy,” he added within the publish.
BJP National President JP Nadda has rejected Rahul Gandhi’s allegation, terming it a pretend narrative. He added Rahul Gandhi is shamelessly “peddling lies” as he is aware of that defeat in Bihar is sure.
“Rahul Gandhi’s latest article is a blueprint for manufacturing fake narratives, owing to his sadness and desperation of losing election after election. Read how Rahul Gandhi lied about Maharashtra: Here’s how he does it, step by step: Step 1: Congress Party gets defeated election after election due to his antics. Step 2: Instead of introspecting, he cooks up bizarre conspiracies and cries rigging. Step 3: Ignores all facts and data. Step 4: Defames institutions with zero proof. Step 5: Hopes for headlines over facts. Despite being exposed time and again, he shamelessly keeps peddling lies. And, he is doing this because a defeat in Bihar is certain. Democracy doesn’t need drama. It needs truth,” Nadda mentioned on X.
In the 2024 Maharashtra meeting polls, the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance secured a landslide victory, whilst the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was once diminished to simply 50 seats.
BJP chief Amit Malviya additionally criticised Rahul Gandhi for his allegation and identified that after Congress wins an election, they hail the election machine as “fair and just,” alternatively, after they lose, they whine and make conspiracy theories.
“It is not that Rahul Gandhi doesn’t understand how the electoral process works. He does very well. But his goal is not clarity, it is chaos. His repeated attempts to sow seeds of doubt and dissension in the minds of voters about our institutional processes are deliberate. When Congress wins — be it in Telangana or Karnataka — the same system is hailed as fair and just. But when they lose — from Haryana to Maharashtra — the whining and conspiracy theories begin, without fail,” Malviya mentioned on X.
Malviya additionally termed Rahul Gandhi’s allegations an try to “systematically erode people’s faith” in the country’s institutions for “political gains.”
“This is straight out of George Soros’ playbook — systematically erode people’s faith in their own institutions, so they can be cracked open from within for political gains. India’s democracy is strong. Its institutions are resilient. And the Indian voter is wise. No amount of manipulation will change that,” he added within the publish.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has previous cleared issues raised by means of the Congress birthday celebration over an surprising voter spike within the Maharashtra polls, as standard.
ECI in a letter to the Congress Party, had defined how an building up in voter turnout from 5 pm to 11:45 pm is standard as a part of the method of aggregation of voter turnout and the way there may also be fide however inconsequential variations in Votes polled and Votes Counted knowledge.
(With ANI inputs)
