Rahul Gandhi claims Brazilian woman ‘voted 22 times’ in Haryana polls, alleges 25 lakh fake voters

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged large-scale rigging in the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections, also claiming that a Brazilian woman voted 22 times in 10 polling booths.

At a press conference in Delhi, Gandhi claimed that the names of about 25 lakh fake voters were added to the electoral rolls in Haryana ahead of the polls in October 2024.

The state has about two crore voters, which means one in every eight voters is fake, he added.

The Congress leader displayed a photograph of a woman, whom he claimed was a Brazilian model, alleging that her image was used in voter rolls of several constituencies.

“This is a centralised operation,” he claimed. “What is a Brazilian person doing on a voters’ list in Haryana?”

Gandhi claimed this was part of a wider conspiracy to “turn a Congress landslide victory into a loss”.

He said that of the 25.4 lakh fake entries the Congress had identified in Haryana’s voter list, 5.2 lakh were duplicate voters, 93,174 had invalid addresses and 19.2 lakh were bulk voters.

Gandhi said that details of the misuse of Form 6 (additions) and Form 7 (deletions) were not available with the Congress because the Election Commission had restricted access to the data after the party alleged voter manipulation in the Mahadevapura Assembly segment in...

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