NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of “stealing” the mandate in the Haryana Assembly elections, claiming that a deliberate plan was executed to convert Congress’s victory into a BJP win. Speaking at a press conference, Rahul Gandhi said the Congress had received “numerous complaints” from its candidates about irregularities during the vote count, suggesting the tampering occurred at the state and national levels. He announced that the party had compiled evidence under what he called the “H Files,” detailing how the alleged manipulation took place. He also criticised the Election Commission and said the democratic process was being subverted, warning that the future of India’s youth was being “destroyed.”
Key quotes:
- “We have the word ‘H’ Files and this is about how an entire state has been stolen. We suspected that this is not happening in individual constituencies, but at the state level and at the national level.”
- “We got a lot of complaints in Haryana, from our candidates, that something was wrong and not working. Their predictions all went upside down.”
- “We had experienced this in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra but we decided to zoom into Haryana and go into details about what had happened there.”
- “I begin by remembering Guru Nanak Ji today, a person who stood for truth and showed India the path of truth.”
- “The democratic process in the country is being destroyed, and the future of Gen Z is being destroyed along with it.”
- He claimed that, “one person had 223 votes in two booths with same photo in Haryana, this is why EC destroys CCTV footage.”
- 1.24 lakh voters with fake photos in Haryana electoral list.
- One in eight voters in Haryana electoral list fake.
- He claimed theft of 25 lakh votes in Haryana, says it includes 5.21 lakh duplicate voters, 93,174 invalid voters and 19.26 lakh bulk voters.
- Rahul Gandhi asks why EC not removing ‘duplicate’ voters from electoral list even though it has software to do so.
