'BJP Leaders Voted In Bihar, Delhi': Rahul Gandhi's 'Vote Chori' Charge At Banka Rall
'BJP Leaders Voted In Bihar, Delhi': Rahul Gandhi's 'Vote Chori' Charge At Banka Rally
M.U.H
07/11/202518
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by accusing the party of stealing votes, pointing to the Opposition’s allegations that some BJP leaders voted in the first phase of the Bihar elections months after voting in Delhi.
Addressing a public meeting in Banka, Bihar, Rahul Gandhi personally accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah of stealing the Haryana elections, repeating his vote theft allegations from earlier. He also accused the Election Commission of remaining silent on the matter.
“Yesterday, it was revealed that some BJP leaders voted in Bihar. They had voted in Delhi also (in February). BJP workers are voting twice, four times, and even ten times. In Haryana, they cut lakhs of votes from those who voted for Congress. They stole the votes of the poor, Dalits, extremely backward communities and minorities," he said.
The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha alleged that the BJP wanted to implement this “vote-stealing" plan across the country. They have done the same thing in Haryana, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra.
“I guarantee that the BJP will do in Bihar what they did in Haryana. There will be fake voter lists in Bihar, and BJP workers will try to vote several times. However, they know nothing about the people of Bihar. They will stop vote theft by standing at polling booths," he added.
Rahul Gandhi’s remarks came after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress raised allegations of vote theft against the BJP on Thursday, saying that several party leaders who voted in Delhi were casting their vote in Bihar as well.
AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj, in what he called a “big expose", accused BJP Rajya Sabha MP and RSS ideologue Rakesh Sinha of voting from Bihar when he had voted in Delhi in February. Bharadwaj argued that Sinha was a professor at Delhi University and was not allowed to vote from Bihar.
Sinha later clarified that while his name was on the voter list in Delhi during the February elections, he had changed his address to Manser Pur in Bihar’s Begusarai due to his active involvement in the state politics.
The first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections were held on November 6, concluding with a massive and historic voter turnout of 64.66%. This figure not only surpassed the previous assembly election record set in 2000 (62.57%) but also eclipsed the highest-ever Lok Sabha polling percentage recorded in the state (64.6% in 1998).
The voting was held on 121 seats spread across 18 districts, and a total of 3.75 crore voters were eligible to exercise their franchise in the first phase of polls. The second phase of assembly polls will be held on November 11, and the votes will be counted on November 14.
