Behind claim that Haryana election ‘stolen’, Rahul points to 5 ‘methods’

He said five methods were used: fake photographs; voters with affiliation to the BJP in UP voting in the Haryana elections; blurred photographs; deleted voters; and house number zero shown as the address.

Maintaining that his allegations were “100 per cent the truth”, he said, “This is about how an entire state has been stolen. Once we did Mahadevapura, Alland (in Karnataka where the Congress made similar allegations), we suspected it was happening at the state and national level… All exit polls had pointed to a Congress victory.”

He claimed that the same thing would happen in the Bihar elections – voting for the first phase will take place Thursday. He brought before the press some people from Bihar’s Jamui district who said their names had been deleted from the voter list in the state.

“We got a lot of complaints from Haryana. Predictions went upside down. We zoomed into Haryana and went into details of what happened there,” he said. For the first time in “Haryana’s electoral history”, he said postal votes “were different from the actual voting”. “In postal ballots, the Congress got 73 seats and the BJP got 17,” he said.

“A plan was put in motion to convert a Congress landslide victory into a loss,” he claimed. He played an old video of Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini before the elections results in which he purportedly said that the BJP would win and form the government since it had all the “vyavastha” (arrangements).

As an example of “duplicate voters”, Gandhi showed a photograph of a woman he claimed was a Brazilian national, and said her stock photo was used to cast votes 22 times at 10 booths in the Rai Assembly constituency. “She has got multiple names – Seema, Sweety, Saraswati, Rashmi, Vimla,” he said.

“This is a centralised operation. Somebody fed this lady (into the database) at a centralised level. The lady in question is a Brazilian model. This is proof of a centralised operation. The lady is one of 25 lakh such people (fake voters). What is a Brazilian woman doing on the electoral list in Haryana?” he alleged.

He claimed that through “duplicate voters”, a total of 5,21,619 votes were stolen.

Citing another example of “duplicate voters”, Gandhi showed a photograph of another woman who he claimed has featured 223 times on the list in two booths. “The EC needs to tell us how many times she voted. This is the reason the ECI destroys CCTV footage. There are thousands of examples like this,” he alleged.

“The ECI can remove duplicates in a second… You don’t need AI. They don’t do it. The reason is that they are helping the BJP,” he alleged.

Flagging “invalid addresses”, he claimed that 93,174 votes were stolen via numbers like House No. 0, making verification impossible.

He claimed that 19,26,351 votes were stolen through “bulk voters”, and that a BJP leader had 66 people living in his house. “He is a BJP man from Palwal… He is allowed to have 66 voters in his house,” he claimed, adding that there was one house with 500 voters living there. “We go looking for them, and we can’t find them. They don’t exist. Why? So you have no way of checking,” he said.

He claimed that 3.5 lakh voters, nearly 2% of the electorate, were deleted from the rolls between the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections.

Asked if he would approach the court regarding his allegations about the Haryana elections, Gandhi said the Supreme Court had been watching his presentations. “We are doing it in the open,” he said.