Alleges 2024 LS poll was ‘rigged’
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday stepped up his attack on the Election Commission, alleging that the polling system in the country is “already dead” and the 2024 Lok Sabha election was “rigged”.
Addressing the inaugural function of the day-long legal conclave on the theme ‘Constitutional Challenges: Perspectives and Pathways’, he alleged that the prime minister is sitting on his chair with a “thin majority” and had there been a difference of a few seats, he would have not been there. He cited data collected by the Congress from an Assembly constituency in Karnataka, where the party checked the photographs and names of electors physically and reportedly found out that 1.5 lakh votes were “fake” out of a total of 6.5 lakh voters.
“You will see the shockwave that is going to go through the electoral system when we release this data. It is literally like an atom bomb,” the Congress leader claimed.
“The truth is that the election system in India is already dead. Please remember one thing that the prime minister of India enjoys a very slim majority. If 10-15 seats were rigged, and we suspect the actual figures to be closer to 70-80 to 100, he would not have been the prime minister of the country,” he claimed.
“In the coming few days, we are going to prove to you without any doubt how a Lok Sabha election can be rigged, and it was rigged,” Gandhi alleged.
Rajnath dares Rahul to detonate ‘atom bomb of evidence’ against EC
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for claiming to have an “atom bomb of evidence of vote theft” against the Election Commission, and dared him to detonate the explosive.
Addressing a function organised by a media house in the state capital, Singh also likened the upcoming assembly polls to a crossroad, “with one path (under NDA) leading to further progress and another (under the INDIA bloc) taking Bihar back to its old era of lawlessness and caste strife”.
“Rahul Gandhi says he is in possession of an atom bomb. If it is so, he should detonate it at once. He should just ensure that he is himself out of harm’s way”, said the former BJP president, tongue in cheek. Singh also said the nation remembers his past rhetoric.
“He had threatened Parliament of an earthquake, but when he spoke, it turned out to be a damp squib,” Singh added.
The union minister said the Election Commission of India is an institution that enjoys a reputation for unquestionable integrity.