Rahul Gandhi Has Tea With 'Dead People', Thanks ECI For 'Unique Experience'

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Rahul Gandhi, on Wednesday interacted with“dead voters" over a cup of tea, crediting the Election Commission for the“unique experience.”

The video of the interaction, posted on the Congress leader's X account, shows Rahul Gandhi interacting with people who say they were wrongly marked as dead in official voter lists despite being alive.

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Jokingly, the Congress leader also tells the 'dead people',“I've heard you're not alive - the Election Commission has killed you.” He then asks how they found out, and one person replies that they learned about it from the Election Commission's voter list.

'Vote Chori' Row

During a press conference on August 7, Rahul Gandhi levelled“vote chori” (vote theft) allegations against the Election Commission and BJP-ruled Centre, citing the Congress' internal analysis. The LoP stated that the Congress expected to win 16 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka but ended up with only nine.

Rahul Gandhi claimed that there was a theft of 1,00,250 votes in Karnataka's Mahadevapura segment.

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According to the Congress leader, the six-digit figure included nearly 12,000 duplicate voters, 40,000 with fake or invalid addresses, over 10,000 registered at the same address, 4,100 with invalid photos, and around 34,000 misusing Form 6 for new voters.

BJP counterattacks 'Vote Chori' – What has happened so far?

• The Bharatiya Janata Party, on Wednesday, launched a counterattack on the Congress party claiming that the former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had been illegally, though briefly, added to the voter list 45 years ago, before she was an Indian citizen.
• Following Rahul Gandhi's allegations, Karnataka's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) asked Rahul Gandhi to submit“relevant” documents on the basis of which he had made the claims, for an inquiry to be initiated into the same.
• Last week, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of at least three states, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Haryana, asked Gandhi to submit a signed declaration with the names of“ineligible” persons included in voter lists and eligible voters who were excluded so that necessary action could be taken.

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• Earlier, the Election Commission had demanded an affidavit under oath from the Congress leader to support his claims.
• Responding to the EC's notice, Gandhi alleged that they were meant to distract from the main issue of alleged irregularities in India's electoral rolls for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

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