In a bid to play down the remarks as 'false' worth no significance, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said the 'atom bomb' threat to poll panel carries no weight nor has any 'power.'
Prasad lashed out at Rahul Gandhi over his allegations relating to the Election Commission, saying that they are waiting for the Congress leader to explode the "atom bomb" he spoke of in relation to the poll panel and that the opposition leader is in the habit of making dramatic remarks.
"We are also waiting. Today Rajnathji has said he should explode early, we are also saying let him explode (his atom bomb). It has no power," Prasad, a former Union Minister, said. "He (Rahul Gandhi) said that when I speak, Modiji will be shaken. Parliament will be shaken. He keeps saying this. During the debate on Operation Sindoor, he punched the bench in the House so hard that the Speaker had to tell him that this is the property of the House," Prasad added.
Furious over the remarks, almost all BJP leaders have slammed Rahul Gandhi over his allegations of "voter theft" against the Election Commission. Speaking in Patna, Rajnath Singh accused Gandhi and other opposition figures of misleading the public with baseless allegations targeting the Election Commission.
Addressing an event in Patna, Singh responded to Gandhi's recent comments on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, terming them as "sensational, baseless and irresponsible." The Union Minister mocked Gandhi's claim of possessing "atom bomb" of proof regarding vote rigging. "If he has such a bomb, he should test it and show the evidence," Singh said, adding that Gandhi's remarks lacked substance.
He recalled previous dramatic statements made by Gandhi, such as triggering an "earthquake," which Singh said resulted in nothing substantial. Defending the Election Commission, Singh described it as a "responsible and constitutional institution" and criticised opposition leaders for "misleading statements".
He emphasised that it is unbecoming for a Leader of the Opposition to make such comments about a body tasked with upholding democracy. He accused the Opposition of engaging in "dirty politics" instead of helping inform the electorate. Rahul Gandhi, who is Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, said yesterday that the poll panel was not helpful in probing their suspicions and "the things we found are an 'atom bomb' and when this atom bomb explodes, you won't see the Election Commission in the country".
Gandhi accused the Election Commission of being complicit in "vote theft" to benefit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and claimed his party has "open-and-shut proof" of the alleged electoral malpractice."Votes are being stolen. We have open-and-shut proof that the Election Commission is involved in this vote theft. And I'm not saying this lightly, I'm speaking with 100% proof. And when we release it (proof), the entire country will come to know that the Election Commission is enabling vote theft. And who are they doing it for? They're doing it for the BJP," he alleged.
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