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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday hit back at Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi over his allegations of vote rigging in the Haryana Assembly elections, questioning his authority to make such claims and accusing the Congress of past electoral malpractices.
Gupta said people will not fall for Rahul Gandhi's narrative. She asserted that the NDA will form the government in Bihar, amid the ongoing assembly polls in the state. "Is Rahul Gandhi the Election Commission, God or some certificate-giving agency? Why should people believe him? Congress used to win until voters were not required to cast their votes on Voter ID cards. Once voter ID cards were made compulsory, Congress stopped winning. In their rule, they captured booths and even imposed an Emergency to protect their chair. People are not going to fall for all this. NDA is going to form the government in Bihar," CM Gupta said. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has alleged that one in eight voters in Haryana are fake, claiming large-scale voter fraud and pointing to unexplained discrepancies between postal and booth votes. Just a day before the first phase of the Bihar polls, he said his team has clear proof that around 25 lakh voters in the state are either duplicate, nonexistent, or manipulated. While addressing a press conference, 'H files', Rahul Gandhi said, "We have crystal clear proof that 25 lakh voters (in Haryana) are fake, that they either don't exist or they are duplicates or are designed in a way for anybody to vote. 1 in 8 voters in Haryana are fake, that's 12.5%." Gandhi claimed that a woman appeared to have voted 22 times across different booths using multiple names. He said the image linked to her was a stock photograph of a Brazilian model and that similar cases could involve up to 25 lakh records in the state. "Congress lost the election by 22,000 votes. Who is this lady? She votes 22 times in Haryana, in 10 different booths in Haryana. She has multiple names. That means this is a centralised operation. The lady is a Brazilian model. That's a stock photograph, and she is one of 25 lakh such records in Haryana," he said. Voting for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections on 121 constituencies will be conducted on November 6 (Thursday). The remaining 122 constituencies will vote in the second phase on November 11. (ANI)
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