Rush Hour: Congress claims 25 lakh fake Haryana voters, Jan Suraaj nominee joins BJP in Bihar & more

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged large-scale rigging in the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections, claiming that about 25 lakh fake voters had been added to the state’s electoral rolls. He displayed a photograph of a woman, whom he claimed is a Brazilian model, alleging that her image was used in voter rolls of several constituencies.

Gandhi accused the Election Commission of helping the Bharatiya Janata Party by not removing the duplicate voters and covering up evidence by “destroying CCTV footage”.

He also alleged that several BJP members were registered as voters in more than one state.

The system of “vote theft” had been “industrialised” and a similar manipulation would take place in the Bihar Assembly elections that begin on Thursday, he added. Read on.

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