The Gujarat unit of Congress on Wednesday announced to launch a signature campaign to expose the alleged ‘vote chori’ before the people of Gujarat and to prevent the same. The campaign will be carried out from October 3 to 10. An announcement in this regard was made by Gujarat Congress President Amit Chavda during a press conference at state party headquarters, Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, in Ahmedabad. Quoting Chavda, a party release stated that the party workers will expose the “‘vote chori’ in the state with an aim to save democracy and will collect people’s signatures in their support”. Chavda alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has exposed ‘vote chori’ by the Election Commission in collusion with the ruling BJP. He also reiterated the claim that the Gujarat Congress too checked around 2.40 lakh voters of Choryasi assembly constituency and found around 30,000 of them as ‘suspicious’, ‘duplicate’ or ‘fake’. On the occasion, Chavda also launched a mobile number on which people can give a missed call to be a ‘vote rakshak’ to prevent ‘vote chori’. The EC has earlier termed the allegations by Congress as ‘misleading’ while asking Gandhi to share evidence on affidavit. It has also said that phrases such as ‘vote chori’ are an attack on electors and on the integrity of lakhs of poll workers. Whereas, the BJP too has earlier stated that the Congress had been ‘peddling lies without proof’.
