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Rahul Gandhi, a Congress leader, called the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls a 'institutionalised chori' and asserted on Friday that the Election Commission is 'openly colluding' with the BJP to carry out this 'theft' in order to deny the poor the ability to vote.

In a video posted to his YouTube channel, Gandhi made the accusation and asserted that the EC brought the SIR to Bihar because 'we have caught their chori.'

He claims that the BJP and the Election Commission (EC) are 'colluding' to 'steal elections.' Gandhi released the video describing the Congress's investigation and the conclusions drawn from an analysis of data from a Karnataka assembly segment in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections the day after he held a press conference during which he allegedly pointed to the use of a 'vote chori' model in several constituencies throughout the nation.

 

#WATCH | Delhi | On Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi's allegations on the EC, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal says, "In Maharashtra, it was an addition of voters, in Karnataka and Delhi, it is manipulation of votes, and now in Bihar it is deletion of votes... I believe that Rahul Gandhi has… pic.twitter.com/Wo1aG8M1q2

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In the video, Gandhi reiterates his allegations that more than one lakh votes were 'stolen' through five different forms of manipulation in the Mahadevapura assembly segment of Karnataka's Bangalore Central Lok Sabha seat, citing the investigation. He says that 1,00,250 votes were stolen in the Mahadevapura assembly segment in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

"I am confident that there are more than 100 such seats in India. What has happened here has happened in those seats as well," Gandhi says.

"If the BJP had 10-15 seats less, Modi would not have been the prime minister and there would have been an INDIA bloc government," he says in the video and goes on to talk about the five types of 'vote chori' found in the Mahadevapura assembly segment.

 

Office of Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra writes to Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.

"...It is understood that during a Press Conference held today, you had mentioned about the inclusion of ineligible electors and exclusion of eligible electors in the Electoral… pic.twitter.com/17DVKOLzQN

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With 11,965 duplicate voters, 40,009 with fictitious and invalid addresses, 10,452 bulk or single-address voters, 4,132 voters with invalid photos, and 33,692 voters abusing Form 6 of new voters, Gandhi alleges that 1,00,250 votes were stolen in the Mahadevapura segment. He continues by using examples from the screen to explain each type of manipulation.

Gandhi states that 11,965 of these voters were located in the Mahadevapura segment under the 'duplicate voter' heading. According to him, Gurkeerat Singh Dang was listed as a voter four times at four separate booths. The former head of Congress also uses the example of someone who is registered to vote in multiple states.

Gandhi asserts that 40,009 voters had fictitious or invalid addresses, demonstrating on screen how a number of individuals in the Mahadevapura segment had 'House Number 0' registered. There were 10,452 voters in Mahadevapura under the category of bulk voters or single address voters, according to Gandhi, who also mentions that "House number 35" had 80 registered voters.

 

#WATCH | Delhi: Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, "... Anti-incumbency is something that hits every single party in every single democracy. But for some reason, the BJP is the only party in a democratic framework that basically does not suffer this idea of… pic.twitter.com/WEUJ9TRH4Y

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Additionally, he asserts that 33,692 voters abused Form 6, which is intended for first-time voters, and 4,132 voters had invalid photos. Gandhi uses the example of Shakun Rani, a 70-year-old woman who registered twice in two months, under this heading. "The truth is that in India, the EC and the BJP are colluding to steal elections. The entire evidence is before everyone in black and white," Gandhi says.

"They know that we have caught their 'chori' and that is why SIR (Special Intensive Revision) has come. SIR is an institutionalised chori. EC is openly colluding with the BJP to carry out this theft. SIR's objective is to take away the voting rights of the poor," he further charged.

"In this investigation we have looked only at voter addition. But probably the number of voter deletions is much more than voter additions," he adds.

 

#WATCH | Delhi: Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, "... Coming to fake addresses... They are mostly of 3 types: either an address that doesn't exist. You go look for it, it's not there, or the address is 0, house number 0, street number 0 or then the address cannot… pic.twitter.com/heg69tyzFn

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"We have caught just one method, we have not probed other methods. I am telling the EC and its officials clearly that what you are doing is not right. This is treason against the country," Gandhi says, reiterating his warning to the officials. "Time will come, we will catch you and you will not be spared. It is critical that we expose voter chori," Gandhi asserts.

Pointing out that he was born into a political family, Gandhi recalls in the video that when he was small, in 1980, he along with his sister Priyanka (Gandhi) used to go out at night and stick posters for campaigning. "I understand elections and have been fighting polls myself for the last 20 years. How polling happens, how polling booths are managed, voters list, form 17, I understand all this. Some time back we felt something was fishy," Gandhi says.

"Election results would be contrary to the mood. I remember in Uttarakhand, we lost the polls. I asked the candidate to go and find out how many votes we got where a road show was held. Thousands of people came for the road show but none voted in the polling booths. This was impossible, it cannot happen. Then came the results of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh and we realised that there is something wrong," he says.

 

#WATCH | Delhi: Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, "...This is a challenge here. This is seven feet of paper. Let's suppose I want to find out if you have voted twice or if your name occurs twice in the voter list, I have to take your picture and then I have to… pic.twitter.com/JBwzYqR9P1

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Gandhi talks about Madhya Pradesh where the party won 2018. He says the Congress government was stolen later and during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, he felt tremendous anti-incumbency against the BJP rule. "But in 2023, we only got 65 seats. This is impossible. Then came Maharashtra and we got our evidence for the first time. New voters emerged through magic between the Lok Sabha and assembly polls. Wherever these new voters voted their vote went to the BJP," he claims.

 

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"When we had doubts we did a press conference along with our alliance partner leaders. We asked EC to give us the voter list and video recording. They neither gave us the voter list nor the video recording which raised doubts. It raised the question in our mind as to whether the EC is helping the BJP. Is the EC indulging in stealing elections? We set up a team and asked them to find out the truth," Gandhi says in the video.

He points out that EC does not give digital data but physical data which means lakhs of papers have to be examined physically. The reason EC does not give digital data is that if it does so, its reality would be out, Gandhi claims.

Tagging his video on X, Gandhi said, "Vote theft is not just an election scam, it is a big fraud committed against the Constitution and democracy." "Criminals of the country should listen - times will change, punishment will definitely be given," he added.

Gandhi on Thursday made explosive claims of a 'huge criminal fraud' in polls through collusion between the BJP and the EC, as he cited an analysis in a constituency in Karnataka and said it was "a crime against the Constitution".

The Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka on Thursday asked Gandhi to share the names of electors he claimed were either included or excluded wrongfully from the voters' list of the state along with a signed declaration for the poll authorities to initiate "necessary proceedings".

 

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