Rahul claims proof of poll fraud

Rahul claims over one lakh votes in the Mahadevapura Assembly constituency in Karnataka were found to be fake, duplicate, bulk voters, with invalid addresses and new voters of over 90 years of age added with misuse of Form 6

- PRES TRUST OF INDIA

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Thursday made explosive claims of a “huge criminal fraud” in polls through “collusion” between the BJP and the Election Commission and called it “a crime against the Constitution”, as he cited an analysis of voter rolls in a constituency in Karnataka last year.

Soon after Gandhi levelled the charge asserting that “vote chori”(vote theft) is an “atom bomb on our democracy”, the Chief Electoral Officers of Karnataka and Maharashtra asked the former Congress chief to share names of electors he claimed were “wrong” in the voters’ list along with a signed declaration for poll authorities to initiate “necessary proceedings” in the matter.

Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters, Gandhi also alleged that the Maharashtra Assembly poll results last year confirmed the Congress’ suspicion that the election was ‘stolen’.