Gurugram: Hours after Rahul Gandhi claimed one other ‘vote choli’ within the 2024 Haryana meeting elections, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief of the Opposition within the state Meeting, on Wednesday stated the main points given by Gandhi in a press convention vindicated his stand that the Bharatiya Janata Get together stole the folks’s mandate within the elections held in October final yr.
Addressing a press convention at his Talkatora Highway residence in Delhi on Wednesday night, Hooda stated there was no exit ballot for the BJP with greater than 29 seats within the 2024 meeting polls, with all polling companies predicting a landslide victory for the Congress.
Chief of Opposition in Haryana Meeting, accompanied by state Congress president Rao Narender Singh, former state Congress president Uday Bhan and Haryana AICC joint chief Jitendra Bahel, stated the Congress was main with 73 seats whereas the BJP was main with 17 seats when the postal votes have been counted.
“In the event you take the previous 5 polls for example, you will note that the events that received the postal votes additionally received the elections. However this time, the Congress misplaced the elections though it was main in 73 out of 90 seats within the postal polls,” Hooda stated.
Recounting the environment after the outcomes got here out on October 8 final yr, Hooda stated everybody, together with political observers, politicians and the media, was shocked as nobody anticipated the Bharatiya Janata Get together to win the elections.
Questioning the transparency of the Election Fee of India (ECI), Hooda stated the Congress had additionally raised the difficulty of sudden rise in voter turnout earlier than counting of votes, however the ECI didn’t heed their objections.
“On October 5, the day voting was held, the Election Fee reported a turnout of 61.19 per cent.The subsequent day, the ECI introduced a determine of 65.65 per cent.Nevertheless, on October 7, the day earlier than counting of votes, the ECI introduced a determine of 67.9 per cent turnout.How did the turnout enhance in a single day?A mean of 15,175 in every parliamentary constituency. Votes have been inflated. General, almost 1.5 million votes have been added after the preliminary turnout introduced by the ECI,” Hooda identified.
Hooda stated it didn’t matter that the Congress couldn’t type the federal government in Haryana though the folks of the state had voted in its favor. “The query was whether or not our leaders supported the Structure of India, which was drafted to make India an excellent democracy,” he stated, including that he was proud that his father Chaudhary Ranbir Singh was additionally among the many leaders who drafted the structure.
Hooda stated that as per the Supreme Courtroom’s 2022 judgment, 5 per cent of the EVMs may be inspected on the request of the candidate and for this, the ECI has prescribed a charge of Rs 40,000 plus GST. A few of the candidates have paid the charges however the ECI is refusing to examine their EVMs. ECI has not even bothered to answer the court docket’s discover on this situation,” Hooda alleged.
He stated the Election Fee has an obligation to hold out its duties pretty, however in apply it has not fulfilled that responsibility. Hooda stated the voice of the folks of Haryana was suppressed and the federal government of Haryana was stolen by means of vote theft.
State President Rao Narender Singh stated Rahul Gandhi’s revelations proved that 2.5 million votes have been rigged in Haryana, that means one in eight votes have been pretend. “The mission was clearly stolen,” he stated.
The Haryana Congress chief stated the battle is not only about Congress however about democracy and the nation’s structure. “The Congress had a bonus within the postal votes, however as quickly because the voting machines opened, the Bharatiya Janata Get together took the lead. The distinction between victory and defeat was simply 22,779 votes, whereas 350,000 votes have been faraway from the electoral rolls after the Lok Sabha elections held simply 5 months in the past. The Bharatiya Janata Get together has insulted its mission. The Congress get together will stage sturdy protests in each district in opposition to this authorities theft,” he added.
He stated the rigging was so blatant that 22 votes have been solid underneath totally different names in 10 cubicles in Haryana’s voter listing for a photograph of a Brazilian mannequin. We additionally discovered 223 votes with the identical picture in a single sales space. He additionally stated there have been 501 registered voters in a single family. He claimed that 1,24,177 voters with pretend images have been discovered throughout the state.
Singh added that hundreds of individuals, together with many BJP leaders and employees, have the suitable to vote in each Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. An outdated two-story home was additionally displayed as “home quantity 0”.
(Edited by Vinny Mishra)
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