Rahul Gandhi flags 1 lakh voter ‘discrepancies’ in one Assembly seat, alleges EC colluded with BJP

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that his party had spent six months examining the electoral rolls in a central Bengaluru Assembly constituency and found discrepancies in 1,00,250 names.

This, he alleged, was evidence that the Election Commission had colluded with the Bharatiya Janata Party in “destroying the election system”.

Gandhi alleged that in Karnataka’s Mahadevapura Assembly, there were 11,965 duplicate voters, 40,009 voters with fake or invalid addresses, 10,454 “bulk voters” registered in a single address, 4,132 voters with invalid photographs and 33,692 voters in whose cases there had allegedly been misuse of Form 6.

The Election Commission’s Form 6 is an application document for registering new voters.

Mahadevapura is part of the Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha constituency, which the BJP’s PC Mohan won in the general election last year. The Bengaluru Central constituency has eight Assembly segments.

Gandhi alleged that the Election Commission deliberately does not give political parties electronic data on voter lists as it does not want them to scrutinise the document carefully.

He claimed that it took the Congress six months to identify discrepancies in the voter list of just the Mahadevapura Assembly segment. “If the Election Commission had given us electronic data, it would have taken only 30 seconds,” he remarked.

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