“In the coming few days, we are going to prove to you without any doubt how a Lok Sabha election can be rigged, and it was rigged,” he alleged.Sharpening his attack on the Election Commission, Gandhi said, “It’s very clear that the institution that protects this (Constitution), and defends it has been obliterated and taken over.”Gandhi also said that he did not have the proof earlier and that is why he could not make such statements before.”But, I am making this statement confidently now because I have 100 per cent proof. And, whoever I have shown it to has fallen off the chair. They literally said how can it be possible. But it is possible, it’s happening, literally,” he claimed.Gandhi said he has been speaking about the election system, as he always had a suspicion that there was something wrong.”Right from 2014, I had a suspicion that there is something wrong, something is not adding up. I had suspicion about the Gujarat Assembly elections… About this ability to score sweeping victories. Congress doesn’t get a single seat in Rajasthan, doesn’t get a single seat in Madhya Pradesh, doesn’t get a single seat in Gujarat.. This was surprising to me,” he said.The Congress MP has repeatedly accused the Election Commission of election fraud and of aiding the BJP in the process.As demands for discussion on the SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar have brought the Parliament to a standstill, Gandhi on July 23 said that the Congress has figured out how “votes are being stolen” in India. Earlier, the Congress MP had also alleged that the BJP and the EC were “hatching a conspiracy to steal” the assembly elections in Bihar.Gandhi had also drawn parallels between Bihar and Maharashtra accusing the poll body of vote manipulation. “In Maharashtra, the mandate was stolen. Now in Bihar, the right to vote is under threat an old conspiracy in a new form. We will continue to expose these anti-Constitutional forces. Together with the people and the youth, we will give a fitting reply,” he had said at a protest march in Patna against the SIR exercise.He had also shared his opinion piece published in a newspaper in June, writing “How to steal an election?”, describing the Maharashtra polls as “a blueprint for rigging democracy” and outlining, step by step, how he claims it was done.(With inputs from PTI)
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