“In the last elections, we had protected the Constitution. This book embodies an ideology shaped over a thousand years; it echoes the voices of Mahatma Gandhi, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, as well as those of Basavanna, Narayan Guru and Phule ji. The foundation of the Constitution is – one person, one vote. This Constitution gives every Indian citizen the right of one vote. In the previous elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders made an assault on the Constitution. The Constitution was attacked through the destruction of the institutions of the country,” he said.Rahul Gandhi claimed that in Maharashtra, the INDIA alliance won the LS polls but the BJP won the Assembly polls held four months later. “It was a surprising result. We got to know that 1 crore new voters had voted in the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Wherever these new voters emerged, BJP won. Our alliance’s vote share did not decrease; we got the same votes that we got in the LS elections. All the new votes went to BJP. That day, we realised something was wrong,” he elaborated.He added that in Karnataka, the Congress party’s internal survey predicted 16 LS seats, but the party won only 9. “So, we started asking questions about whether we actually lost these seats. We asked the Election Commission for the digital voter list, but it refused. It also didn’t give us the videography, and changed the law to limit the time for retaining CCTV footage to 45 days,” he pointed out.“When we didn’t get help from the EC, we started an investigation on our own and chose the Mahadevapura Assembly segment in Bangalore Central LS seat. Yesterday, I proved it 100 per cent — BJP and EC colluded to steal votes. There are 6.5 lakh votes in Mahadevapura Assembly segment, out of which 1,00,250 votes were stolen. This implies that one out of every six votes was stolen,” he alleged.He listed five alleged methods used to steal votes: one person voting at multiple booths, with 11,965 such voters found in lists of different states; creating about 40,000 votes through fake or invalid addresses, with bulk voters (up to 80 people) shown as living in one-bedroom houses owned by BJP leaders, totalling 10,452 such voters; creating 4,132 voters through invalid or unrecognisable photos; and misusing Form 6, meant for first-time voters, to create about 34,000 voters aged up to 80–90 years.He alleged that the EC and BJP together stole more than one lakh votes in the Bengaluru Central LS seat. “We demand that EC provide us the electronic voter list of the entire country, and election-related videography records. If they provide us this data, we will prove that seats have not only been stolen in Karnataka, but across the whole country. If EC gives us electronic data, we will prove that Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister by stealing votes. Modi is PM because of a margin of just 25 seats. We have proven that one LS seat in Karnataka was stolen. Notably, the BJP won 25 seats with margins of less than 35,000 votes,” he said.He came down heavily on the EC, accusing it of attacking the constitutional foundation of “one person, one vote” and the rights of poor people. “If they think they can get away with this, I want to tell them — it’ll take time, but we will catch each one of you, one by one. If you attack the Constitution, we’ll attack you; the Constitution is the voice of India,” he warned.
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