Responding to Lok Sabha Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi’s accusations of ‘vote chori’ in recent polls, the Election Commission has challenged him to file an oath on false electors in the voter list.
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The Congress leader, at a press meet in Karnataka on Thursday, alleged irregularities in the electoral rolls of the recently held polls, saying the poll body was working in collusion with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party to destroy the election system in India.
Citing the example of the Lok Sabha polls to Bangalore Central constituency, the Congress leader said that while the Congress won six out of seven segments, it lost in the Mahadevapura Assembly segment in which it was defeated by over 1,14,000 votes.
The Congress leader alleged ‘vote chori’ of 1,00,250 votes in the constituency with 11,965 duplicate voters in one assembly segment, 40,009 voters with fake and invalid addresses, 10,452 bulk voters or single address voters, 4,132 voters with invalid photos and 33,692 voters misusing Form 6 of new voters.
He alleged a woman Shagun Rani has two voter ID cards. It also has a tick mark () from the officer at the polling station, which proves that Shagun Rani has voted twice, he alleged.
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