On a visit to the United States, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi has cited the Maharashtra assembly polls to allege that the Election Commission is “compromised” and “there is something wrong with the system”. According to ANI, Gandhi arrived in the US on Saturday.
Speaking at an event in Boston on Sunday, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha claimed that, in simple terms, more people voted in the Maharashtra assembly Elections than there are adults in the state.
“The Election Commission gave us a voting figure for 5:30 PM, and between 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM, 65 lakh voters voted. This is physically impossible to happen. For a voter to vote, it takes approx 3 minutes, and if you do the Math, it would mean that there were lines of voters till 2 AM, but this did not happen,” he said.
“When we asked them for the videography, they not only refused but they also changed the law so that now we are not allowed to ask for the videography,” Gandhi said.
“It is very clear to us that the Election Commission is compromised, and it is very clear that there is something wrong with the system. I have said this multiple times,” he added.
After he arrived in the US, he began interactions with business and community members. He will visit Brown University in Rhode Island on April 21-22.
At Brown University, Gandhi will give a talk and interact with faculty members and students.
Backing Rahul Gandhi over his comments, Shiv Sena ( UBT ) Leader Aaditya Thackeray Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aditya Thackeray also came out in support of the Congress MP, terming his statement as “100 per cent correct as the whole world knows that the Election commission is administered from the BJP office” he claimed.
Meanwhile, a fuming Bharatiya Janata Party dubbed Rahul Gandhi a “traitor” for his remarks against the Election Commission, and accused him of venting out his frustration over the Enforcement Directorate action in the National Herald case on the poll body.
