25 lakh duplicate votes, votes in Brazilian model’s name, 3.5 lakh voters deleted in Haryana: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader and the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, who after an explosive revelation about voter rigging in Karnataka, unveiled what he described as a massive “vote theft” in Haryana, claiming that around 25 lakh votes out of two crore were manipulated, including a case where a woman appeared 223 times in the voters list and another instance where a Brazilian model was shown to have voted 22 times across 10 booths.

Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi, Rahul Gandhi alleged large-scale voter fraud in Haryana, asserting that the irregularities were systematic and centrally orchestrated, extending to both duplication and deletion of names, which he described as a deliberate attempt to subvert democratic processes.

The Congress leader accused the Election Commission of being in partnership with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming that the institution had ceased to act independently and was now working to destroy democracy in the country.

According to him, about 3.5 lakh voters were deleted from the electoral rolls before the Vidhan Sabha elections in Haryana, and he questioned whether proper ground verification was carried out as required under the rule that mandates on-site checks when more than ten people are registered under one household.

He described the entire election process in Haryana as a theft and claimed that multiple houses carried suspicious entries, including one house that reportedly had 501 registered voters but was found vacant when inspected.

Rahul Gandhi also challenged Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s explanation that “house number 0” was assigned to homeless citizens, alleging instead that the designation was being used to obscure unverifiable or duplicate voter entries, and arguing that such practices had made it nearly impossible to track genuine voters, while the manipulation of addresses was one of the methods employed to facilitate duplication.

He further alleged that several individuals were registered to vote in both Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, including local BJP functionaries who, according to him, held dual entries across the two states, describing it not as accidental but as reflective of a broader pattern of organised voter manipulation carried out to favour the ruling party.

In his presentation, Gandhi accused the Election Commission of erasing CCTV footage from polling booths to prevent verification of voting patterns and asserted that the deliberate blurring of names and photographs was being used to conceal voter duplication, adding that although the Commission had the technology to remove duplicate entries within seconds, it deliberately refrained from doing so.

Presenting what he called evidence, Gandhi showcased images of voters who appeared multiple times in the rolls, including a woman who allegedly voted 223 times and another who voted 22 times under the name of a Brazilian model. He claimed that these were not isolated instances but part of a coordinated operation involving thousands of similar cases.

He also questioned the Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s remarks about having all “arrangements in place” before the elections, asking what such confidence implied when exit polls had indicated a Congress advantage.