The Congress has ‘concrete 100 per cent proof’ that the Election Commission allowed cheating in a constituency in Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi claimed and warned the poll panel that it will not get away with this ‘because we are going to come for you’.
Responding to Gandhi’s remarks, the EC said it is ‘highly unfortunate’ that rather than filing an election petition in accordance with section 80 of the Representation of the People Act, or if filed, awaiting the verdict of the high court, he has not only made ‘baseless allegations’ but also ‘chosen to threaten’ a constitutional body.
An election petition can be filed within 45 days after poll results are announced by anyone not satisfied with the verdict.
Such petitions can be filed in high courts of the state of the constituency concerned.
Gandhi alleged that the poll panel is not functioning as the Election Commission of India and is ‘not doing its job’.
Asked about the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s reported remarks that the option of boycotting the Bihar assembly polls was open, Gandhi told reporters that his party has ‘concrete 100 per cent proof’ of the EC allowing cheating in a seat in Karnataka.
“Not 90 per cent, when we decide to show it to you, it is a 100 per cent proof,” the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said.
“We just looked at one constituency and we found this. I am absolutely convinced that constituency after constituency this is the drama that is taking place. Thousands and thousands of new voters, how old are they? — 45, 50, 60, 65, thousands and thousands of them in one constituency. This is one thing, voter deletion, voter addition, new voters who are way above 18 (is going on)… so we have caught them,” he said.
