Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi launched a fresh attack against the Election Commission and charged that elections in India are rigged. He added that Congress would release proof of discrepancies in the electoral roll.
Talking at the annual legal conclave organised by the party, Gandhi said, "We are going to prove to you in the coming few days how a Lok Sabha election can be rigged and was rigged. The truth is that the election system in India is already dead." The Congress leader said Narendra Modi became the prime minister with a slim majority. "If 15 seats were rigged, he would not have been the prime minister."
Gandhi charged that the Election Commission no longer exists, and it took the party six months to "uncover" the "rigging" in electoral rolls. "You will see with zero doubt how a Lok Sabha election is stolen," he claimed.
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The Congress leader charged one lakh voters were added to the electoral roll ahead of the assembly elections in Maharashtra. "I always had a suspicion that there was something wrong, right from 2014... Now I say with absolutely no doubt that we have proof," he charged.
Gandhi's fresh salvo against the poll body comes a day after the Commission called the charges "baseless". "The Election Commission ignores such baseless allegations being made on a daily basis, and despite the daily threats being given, asks all election officials to ignore such irresponsible statements and work in a fair and transparent manner," the EC said, responding to Gandhi's comments.