‘Brazilian model voted as Seema, Sweety, Saraswati in Haryana’: Rahul Gandhi’s ‘H-files exposé’

Rahul Gandhi put up pictures of voter rolls, which displayed a same photo of a Brazilian model photographed by Matheus Ferrero. The image was from the photo repository website Unsplash which showed the model on Ferrero’s profile.

.@RahulGandhi showed a picture of a Brazilian woman and alleged that she had voted 22 times on 10 booths in Haryana alone.

“This is a centralised operation… The lady in question is a Brazilian model. This is proof of a centralised operation. The lady is one of 25 lakh such… pic.twitter.com/QKI7LRzSmI

— The Indian Express (@IndianExpress) November 5, 2025

Showing the photo, Rahul Gandhi said: “She votes 22 times in 10 different booths in Haryana. She’s got multiple names like Seema, Sweety, Saraswati, Vimla…”

Rahul Gandhi shows the purported voters’ list with the image of the same Brazilian model.

He said that this was not a booth-level act since the photo appeared on the voter lists at 10 different booths. “This means it’s a centralised operation. Someone fed the photo into the electoral list at a central level, not at the booth level.” “She is a Brazilian model and only one of 25 lakhs such records in Haryana,” Rahul Gandhi said.

‘Why was a Brazilian model’s photo used?’

Rahul Gandhi said the Brazilian woman’s photo was used for a logical reason. He alleged there were five categories of vote theft in Haryana, which involved the use of duplicate voters, invalid addresses, bulk voters, misuse of Form 6, and misuse of Form 7. This amounted to a total of 25,41,144 cases of voter frauds.

Rahul Gandhi shows the break-up of the five categories of ‘vote fraud’.

He said access to Form 6 and Form 7 details were blocked by the Election Commission after the Congress’ claims on Mahadevpura and Aland ‘vote chori‘. “We cannot give you the exact numbers of voter deletion and addition… But we estimate the two would add up to another 7-10 lakhs.”

He said that Haryana had a voter population of 2 crore and there were vote fraud cases of 25 lakh. “Confirmed vote chori of  25 lakhs amounts to 12.5%. Despite that, the Congress loses by 22,000 votes,” he said.

“One fake photo is used in a single assembly segment to cast 100 votes… This is to create space for BJP people to come from other states and vote,” Rahul Gandhi alleged. This was also why the Election Commission refused to show the CCTV footage from polling booths, he said.

When similar allegations were levelled against the ECI earlier, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said at a press conference on August 17: “Should the Election Commission share the CCTV videos of any voter including their mothers, daughters-in-law, daughters? Only those whose names are in the voter list cast their votes to elect their candidate…”

#WATCH | Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar says, “We saw a few days ago that photos of many voters were presented to the media without their permission. Allegations were made against them, they were used. Should the Election Commission share the CCTV videos of any… pic.twitter.com/WcOIBTSBMS

— ANI (@ANI) August 17, 2025