New Delhi
The Election Commission has received the response of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on the claim of rigging the voter list and fighting a vote for a person. On Thursday, the Election Commission reminded Rahul Gandhi and said that one vote of one person in the country is in force from the first general election round in 1951-52. In India, the first elections were held in 1952 only after getting independence from the British and the implementation of democracy. The Commission said that a person is not a new thing like a vote.
Apart from this, he said that if someone has any evidence that someone has voted twice in an election, then his information should be shared. The Commission said that any person can contact the Election Commission with affidavit on receiving such information. The Election Commission said that this is the right way. If the representatives selected without any evidence are described as thieves instead, then it would be wrong. This will affect India’s election process and reduce its respect.
Amidst the frequent attacks of Rahul Gandhi, the Commission said on Thursday that evidence should be given instead of creating false discussions using dirty words like ‘vote theft’. The commission said in a statement that the law of “one person one vote” has been in existence since the first elections held in 1951–1952. The statement further stated that trying to create false discourse using “dirty phrases” for Indian voters for Indian voters is a direct attack on the honesty of not only millions of Indian voters but also millions of election workers.
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, against the data last week, alleged that in the 2024 elections, more than one lakh votes were ‘theft’ in Mahadevpura assembly constituency of Bangalore Central Lok Sabha, resulting in the defeat of the Congress candidate. The Commission had asked Gandhi to present a written affidavit regarding his claims.
