Former Haryana chief minister and Leader of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said that the Election Commission should answer serious questions raised by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, which “clearly indicate that the government was stolen in Haryana”.
Responding to the claims of vote theft in Haryana at a press conference with Congress state president Rao Narendra and former state president Chaudhary Udaibhan, the Congress state leadership demanded answers from the Election Commission. Hooda said the Election Commission should answer the questions posed Rahul Gandhi, who has exposed vote theft with evidence. “The serious allegations he has made are bound to raise questions about the Commission's impartiality. This is not just a matter of Haryana, but of the entire country and our democracy,” he said.
“The Election Commission should perform its duties impartially, which it is not doing. We have repeatedly said that elections should be conducted using ballot papers. This time too, the Congress was leading in 73 seats in ballot paper counting, but fell behind in EVM counting. The results of the last five elections show that this has never happened before,” he said.
Hooda said the voice of the people of Haryana was suppressed and the government in Haryana was stolen through vote theft. “The Election Commission reported 61.19 percent polling on polling day. Then, on October 6, it reported 65.65 percent voting, but on October 7, it reported 67.9 percent voting. How did the vote count increase overnight? An average of 15,175 votes were inflated in each assembly constituency,” he pointed out.
Haryana Congress president Rao Narendra Singh said Rahul Gandhi's revelations have proven that 25 lakh votes were rigged in Haryana, meaning that one in every eight votes was fake. “The mandate has clearly been stolen,” he said.
The Haryana Congress president said this fight is not just about the Congress, but about democracy and the country's Constitution. “The Congress was ahead in postal ballots, but as soon as the machines were opened, the BJP took the lead. The difference between victory and defeat was only 22,779 votes, whereas 3.5 lakh votes were removed after the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP has insulted the mandate. The Congress will hold strong protests in every district against this government's theft,” he said.
“Rahul has stated that the Congress government in Haryana was stolen through vote rigging, and put forward the evidence in black and white. Nearly 2.5 million fake votes were created in Haryana. The rigging was at such a large scale that, based on the photograph of a Brazilian model, 22 votes were created in 10 booths in Haryana's voter list, each under different names. As many as 223 votes with the same photo were found in one booth, while 501 voters were registered in a single household. Across the state, 124,177 voters with fake photos were found,” said the Haryana Congress chief.
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