Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP of rigging the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections through “fake votes” and manipulation of postal ballots, claiming a “25 lakh vote chori.”
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of manipulating the 2024 Haryana Assembly election results through large-scale voter fraud and misuse of postal ballots, claiming what he called a “25 lakh vote theft.”
Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi, Gandhi said all pre-election surveys had predicted a Congress win with 52 to 62 seats, yet the outcome was “completely contrary.” He alleged that postal ballots, which usually reflect the same trend as regular votes, showed “abnormal and suspicious variations” this time.
According to Gandhi, Congress lost by a narrow margin of about 22,000 votes even though the total discrepancy in the vote count reached 1.18 lakh. He claimed that 12.5 percent of the votes were fake, involving nearly 93,000 invalid addresses. “This is not a minor issue of irregularities. This is a case of industrial-scale manipulation of democracy,” he said, adding that the Election Commission had limited access to crucial voter data.
The Congress MP also alleged that the same identity was used to cast multiple votes, including through what he called “fake photographs and digital manipulation.” He asserted that his party had gathered concrete proof of the discrepancies. “We are questioning the Election Commission with 100 percent evidence. The figures are unbelievable,” he said.
Gandhi referred to what he called the “H Files,” describing it as an investigation into how “an entire state has been stolen.” He said the Congress had received numerous complaints from candidates across Haryana about irregularities and system failures. “We noticed the same pattern earlier in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra, but we chose to dig deeper into Haryana this time,” he explained.
The Congress leader had earlier promised to release what he described as a “hydrogen bomb” of evidence to expose voter fraud, after previously presenting what he termed an “atom bomb” related to similar irregularities in Mahadevpura.
