Rahul Gandhi alleges 1,00,250 votes rigged in Mahadevapura Assembly in Karnataka

Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi slammed the Election Commission of India ECI on Thursday alleging that the elections are choreographedPresenting Congress research on voting in the Mahadevapura Assembly in Karnataka the Congress law maker alleged vote chori vote theftrdquo of 100250 votes reported ANIAddressing a press conference Gandhi said that his party won other seats in the state however Mahadevapura was swept by the Bharatiya Janata Party BJPCalling the elections choreographed Gandhi said ldquoOur internal polling told us we would win 16 seats in Karnataka we won nine We then focused on seven unexpected losses We chose one Lok Sabha and our team decided we could only focus on one Vidhan Sabha seat So we focused on Mahadevapur Here is the broad math All data is 2024 data from the Election Commission Total votes polled in the Lok Sabha were 626 lakhs The BJP won with 658915 securing a margin of 32707 But then we look at Mahadevapura where Congress polls 115586 and BJP polls 229632 Congress wins all Vidhan Sabhas but this one This seat wins them the electionHe further alleged that 100250 votes stolen were ldquostolen in five different waysrdquoldquoDuplicate voters fake and invalid addresses and bulk voters in a single address on a building with 5060 people living But when we go there no record of those people living there One family living in that house the Lok Sabha Member of Parliament MP alleged adding Invalid photosThen the misuse of Form 6 Form 6 allows new people to become votersrdquoGandhi said that antiincumbency hit every party but the BJP retained power in Haryana and Madhya PradeshAntiincumbency hits every single party in every democracy but for some reason the BJP is the only party that does not suffer from antiincumbency in a democracy Exit polls and opinion polls say one thing but you saw in the Haryana and MP elections and suddenly the results go in another direction with a massive swing This also included our internal polling which is sophisticated said GandhiFlagging polling in multiple phases he also pointed out that the dates of the Haryana and Karnataka elections were changed There was a time in India with no EVMs people voted on one day Now UP has a different voting day and Bihar has some other day Voting goes on for a month This made us suspicious Suddenly the dates of the Haryana and Karnataka elections were changed claimed GandhiReiterating his claims on fake voters in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 the MP alleged that the number of voters added to the list in the five months ahead of the polls was more than the people added in the past five yearsMaharashtra we werent able to tell the logic behind it In Maharashtra and Haryana we saw it right in front of our faces We said publicly and told EC more voters were added in five months than in five years in Maharashtra More voters than the entire population of Maharashtra Huge jump in voter turnout after 5 pm Our alliance got wiped out while the alliance swept in the Lok Sabha At the state level between Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha one crore voters came in he allegedGandhis response comes after the Election Commission of India on Saturday claimed that he is yet to respond to its June letter regarding his allegations of election rigging in the Maharashtra assembly pollsThe polls body said the Congress leader has not responded to an official invitation extended to him nearly two months agoWhy Is it because his media statements were baseless ECI sources askedIn a letter dated June 12 the Election Commission had invited the Leader of the Opposition for an interaction regarding rigging in Maharashtra assembly polls which he raised in a writeup that he wrote for a newspaper five days prior He had claimed that the same would be repeated in the Bihar Assembly Election which is to be held later this yearThe June 12 letter reads We presume that any issue regarding the conduct of elections would have already been raised through election petitions filed in the competent court of law by the INC candidates However if you still have any issues you are welcome to write to us and the Commission is also willing to meet you in person at a mutually convenient date and time to discuss all issues A convenient date and time may be communicated in this regard at the email IDWith ANI inputs