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Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP of rigging the 2024 Haryana Meeting elections by way of “faux votes” and manipulation of postal ballots, claiming a “25 lakh vote chori.”
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged large-scale electoral malpractice within the 2024 Haryana Meeting elections, claiming that the BJP’s victory was ensured by way of “faux votes” and “huge manipulation” of postal ballots.
Addressing a press convention on the AICC headquarters in New Delhi, Gandhi stated, “All polls pointed to a Congress victory with 52 to 62 seats, but the outcomes had been solely totally different.”
“For the primary time in Haryana’s electoral historical past, postal votes didn’t match the pattern of regular votes,” he added.
He additional claimed that Congress misplaced by simply 22,000 votes, whereas there was a complete vote distinction of 1.18 lakh.
“There was a 25 lakh vote chori in Haryana, 12.5 per cent faux votes. Round 93,000 addresses had been invalid,” he alleged, accusing the Election Fee of limiting entry to voter knowledge.
Gandhi stated he was “questioning the Election Fee and the democratic course of with 100 per cent proof,” calling the discrepancies “unbelievable.”
He additionally alleged that faux photographs had been used to solid a number of votes from the identical identification.
“We now have the phrase ‘H’ Information, and that is about how a whole state has been stolen. We suspected that this isn’t taking place in particular person constituencies, however on the state degree and on the nationwide degree,” Rahul Gandhi stated.
“We obtained a variety of complaints in Haryana, from our candidates, that one thing was incorrect and never working. Their predictions all went the other way up. We had skilled this in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, however we determined to zoom in on Haryana and go into particulars about what had occurred there,” he added.
The Congress chief had earlier warned of exposing what he termed a “hydrogen bomb” of proof associated to voter fraud, after earlier revealing irregularities in Mahadevpura, which he referred to as an “atom bomb.”
Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy Information Editor at News18.com. She has practically 10 years of expertise in each nationwide and worldwide information and has beforehand labored on a number of desks.
Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy Information Editor at News18.com. She has practically 10 years of expertise in each nationwide and worldwide information and has beforehand labored on a number of desks.
November 05, 2025, 12:24 IST
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