‘Election system in India is dead’: Rahul Gandhi alleges 2024 Lok Sabha polls were rigged

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said his party suspects that the results of as many as 70 to 100 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were manipulated, claiming that “the election system in India is already dead”.

“Remember, the prime minister [Narendra Modi]...holds office with a very slim majority,” Gandhi said at a Congress event. “If 15 seats were rigged and we suspect the number to be much closer to 70 to 100. If 15 seats hadn’t been rigged, he wouldn’t be the prime minister.”

In the 2024 elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party won 240 seats, down from 303 in 2019. Falling short of the 272-seat majority mark, it relied on coalition partners in the National Democratic Alliance to form the government. The Congress secured 99 seats.

Gandhi, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, said the party has “100% proof” to support its claims.

“And we will prove to you that the Lok Sabha can be and was rigged,” he added.

The Election Commission, however, dismissed the allegations as “baseless”.

It said that the Congress leader was repeatedly making “unsubstantiated and misleading” accusations aimed at discrediting its “impartial” work.

Meanwhile, Gandhi claimed that in one constituency, which he did not name, “6.5 lakh voters voted, out of which 1.5 lakh were...

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