The Congress party continued its attack on the BJP over alleged 'vote theft' on Saturday, with senior leader Pawan Khera accusing the ruling party of tampering with the voter list by fraudulently adding and removing names.
Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday shared a spoof video inspired by the film Laapataa Ladies, reiterating the Congress's "vote theft" allegations against the Election Commission and urging people to join the 'Vote Chori se Azaadi' campaign
On August 11, KN Rajanna resigned from the Siddaramaiah cabinet after his allegations on the Karnataka government's inaction following Rahul Gandhi's "vote theft" allegations on Election Commission of India and BJP.
"She is 35 years old and not 124 years old. This is not our fault. The one who made the card must have made the mistake. Only they know what happened, how it happened and why it happened," Tej Pratap Singh, Minta Devi's father-in-law, told ANI.
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday lashed out at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over the latter's allegations of "vote theft" by the Election Commission, alleging that the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha has not read the Constitution and has no respect for it.
Prasad told ANI, "... Rahul Gandhi is a person who abuses someone and then runs away... He is frustrated because he thinks that his family has a contract to run the country, so where did PM Modi come from?"
Election Commission of India on Thursday strongly responded to the "vote theft" allegations, stating that the attempt to "create a false narrative" against the poll body is a "direct attack" on the Indian voters and "assault" on the integrity of election staff.
Election Commission of India (ECI) has received a total of 23,557 claims and objections over the draft voter list after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Bihar, out of which 741 complaints have been disposed, a press note said on Thursday.
Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, on Thursday accused MLC Dinesh Singh of possessing two voter ID cards amid the ongoing allegations on the Election Commission of "voter fraud."
Stepping forward with the senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's "vote theft" campaign, Congress workers put up banners reading "vote chori commission" outside the ECI's office in Delhi, intensifying protests against the ECI and Bharatiya Janata Party over alleged vote theft in the 2024 elect
Khera highlighted the disparity in the time taken to obtain similar data, saying it took the Congress four to six months to collect information for one Assembly constituency, while the BJP had secured data for two parliamentary seats almost immediately.