"Rahul Gandhi has revealed harsh truth," says Congress' Harish Rawat on fresh claims of vote theft

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], September 18 (ANI): Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Harish Rawat on Thursday backed Rahul Gandhi allegations of vote theft, stating that Gandhi has revealed a harsh truth.

Speaking to ANI, the senior Congress leader accused the Election Commission of acting like a political party and accused them of avoiding answers to the questions posed to them.

Harish Rawat said, ...Rahul Gandhi has revealed a harsh truth that weve all sensed over the last few elections. The votes from a particular segment of society and followers of a specific ideology have been suddenly deleted... Additionally, many other names have been added with single-line addresses that are unverifiable. These votes are being added in large numbers and are being transferred from other places... This is a very serious issue. Instead of conducting an independent investigation, the Election Commission are dismissing these allegations and avoiding answering the questions posed to them. They are acting like a political party...

This comes amid Rahul Gandhi fresh allegations of an attempt at vote theft in Karnataka Aland constituency. Addressing a press conference today, he claimed that there was an attempt to delete more than 6,000 voters names from the Aland constituency in Karnataka.

In Aland, Karnataka, 6018 votes, somebody tried to delete these votes. We dont know the total number of votes deleted in 2023 elections, but somebody got caught. It was caught, by most crimes, by a coincidence. What happened was that the Booth Level officer noticed that her uncle vote has been deleted, he said.

The Lok Sabha LoP further alleged that the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, is protecting vote chors and is fully aware of how fraud is happening in deleting and adding fake voters in the voter list. He stated that he has 10 per cent proof that the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is protecting vote chors (vote thieves).

He said that a group of people is using a centralised method through software and impersonating real voters and deleting their names from the voter lists.

Gandhi further claimed that he is getting help from people who are working for the Election Commission of India (ECI) in uncovering alleged vote fraud in the country.

We have started getting help from inside the Election Commission. I am making it clear that we are now getting information from inside the Election Commission, this was not happening before, but now we are getting information from inside Election Commission, and this is not going to stop. India people will not accept this. Once the youth comes to know that vote chori is happening then their power will come, Rahul Gandhi alleged.

Responding to the claims, the ECI has called Rahul Gandhi allegations as baseless and incorrect, highlighting that no deletion of any vote can be done online by any member of the public.

The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Karnataka also responded to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi fresh claims of vote chori in Aland constituency, stating that the poll body had already rejected all incorrect applications and an FIR was filed in the matter in 2023.

The Karnataka CEO said in a statement that the ERO in Aland received 6,018 online applications through Form 7 in December 2022. Suspecting the genuineness of such a large number of applications submitted online for deletion of electors names in 46-Aland LAC in Karnataka, verification of each application was conducted by ERO/AERO/BLOS, an official statement said.

Only 24 applications were found to be genuine, and another 5,994 were found to be incorrect. Accordingly, 24 applications were accepted, and 5,994 incorrect applications were rejected and not deleted, the statement added.

The leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha has claimed that the investigation into the alleged fraud has been stalled for over 2 years, as the poll body is not replying to the letters sent by the CID, calling it proof that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is protecting vote chors (vote thieves). (ANI)

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