Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference, in New Delhi, on November 5, 2025.
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Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi dropped another major “vote theft” claim on Wednesday (November 5, 2025), alleging that there were 5.21 lakh duplicate voters in the electoral rolls ahead of the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections that the BJP won.

The Congress MP held a press conference in New Delhi, during which he alleged that vote theft was happening “not just constituency level, but at the State and National level”.

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Mr. Gandhi further claimed that “thousands of people” registered as voters in both Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, including one voter who whose photograph appeared 223 times in two booths.

Mr. Gandhi alleged that the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the two election commissioners colluded with the BJP to ensure its victory in Haryana and claimed that “they are in partnership” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

‘Operation Sarkar Chori’ was launched to convert the landslide Congress victory into loss in Haryana, the former party president alleged.

“The EC does not want a fair election. This is absolutely clear proof of what the BJP is doing,” said Mr. Gandhi. “They (ECI) want to create space. [for fake votes] They are destroying CCTV footage.”

The Congress leader alleged that there were 1,24,177 voters with the same photo in Haryana.

“Why is the Election Commission not removing duplicates? It is because if it does so, it would result in fair elections and it doesn’t want fair elections,” Mr. Gandhi said.

“All polls pointed to a Congress victory in Haryana. The five top exit polls said Congress is sweeping. The other thing that was surprising was that for the first time in Haryana, the postal votes were different from the result. In postal ballots, Congress got 73 seats while the BJP got 17 seats,” he said.

In August, Gandhi, citing data from the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, had claimed that over one lakh votes were “stolen” through manipulation in Mahadevapura assembly segment in Karnataka.

The Election Commission had, however, dubbed the charges as “incorrect and baseless” and asserted that no deletion of votes can happen without giving an opportunity of being heard to the affected person.

(With inputs from PTI)

Published – November 05, 2025 01:19 pm IST