A day after former Union minister Minister Anurag Thakur alleged irregularities in voter registration in a number of LS seats held by Opposition leaders and accused them of “vote theft”, Congress Thursday said it “proves” the 2024 LS polls were “based on a fake voter list”.
Questioning the EC for not serving a notice to Thakur, as it did in Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi’s case, AICC Media and Publicity Department Chairman Pawan Khera said, “We demand that the evidence presented by Anurag Thakur be handed over to us. He has proven there is collusion between BJP and the EC,” he said.
Thakur on Wednesday claimed there were 2.69 lakh “doubtful voters” in Rae Bareli, a seat held by Rahul Gandhi. He also targeted others seats like TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s constituency of Diamond Harbour and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s Kannauj seat.
Khera said that Thakur’s analysis “proves that the previous LS election (in 2024) was based on a fake voter list, so shouldn’t it be considered fraudulent and cancelled?… We thank Anurag Thakur and the BJP for proving the point made by Rahul Gandhi ji that the elections are fought on the basis of fake voters”.
Hitting back, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat claimed that Congress’s history is replete with instances when it resorted to “fraud, deception and deceit” in its “greed” for power.
Reiterating BJP national IT cell chief Amit Malviya’s allegation against ex-Congress chief Sonia Gandhi that “her name first appeared on the rolls in 1980, three years before she became an Indian citizen”, Shekhawat accused the Gandhi family “which has stolen mandates, looted booths, rejected votes to change outcomes, and deprived voters of their right to vote” of making “baseless claims to portray itself as the saviour of democracy”.
He said Sonia Gandhi “being a voter in 1980 amounted to challenging India’s sovereignty and showing contempt for the constitutional process”.
