Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday stepped up his attack on the Centre and the Election Commission, saying the names of 65 lakh people, who are poor and belong to socially weaker sections, have been deleted from the electoral rolls of Bihar.
Gandhi, who is the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, said he would provide more evidence of what he called ‘vote chori’ in the coming months.
"We have exposed the BJP and the EC, who were indulging in stealing votes... They did it in Maharashtra, Haryana and Karnataka. Now they want to repeat it in Bihar, which we will not allow them to do," he said, addressing a rally at Sitamarhi in Bihar as part of the 'Voter Adhikar Yatra'.
Gandhi said he would give proof of the rigging he had alleged in the past Lok Sabha elections and the Haryana assembly elections.
“In Karnataka, we have shown by giving proof that the BJP has stolen votes. Before that, I never said that the BJP and the Election Commission are stealing votes. Till now, I have given proof only of Karnataka. In the coming time, I will give proof of the Lok Sabha elections and the Haryana elections. We will prove that BJP and RSS win elections by stealing votes,” he said.
Gandhi had made similar claims on Wednesday, too, when he accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Amit Shah and the Election Commission of stealing votes.
“We will inform you within the next six months that they have developed a model of theft in the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha, which they have named the Gujarat model... The youth of Bihar will show PM Narendra Modi how 'vote chori' will be put to an end,” he had said.