At Delhi conclave, Cong gives clarion call to unite in saving Constitution, democracy’
New Delhi, Aug 2: The Congress on Saturday made a fervent call for protecting the Constitution and democracy with its top leadership urging all to unite and “help save” the country from the BJP.
Setting the tone at the inaugural of day-long legal conclave on ‘Constitutional Challenges: Perspectives and Pathways’, party leader Rahul Gandhi said he will soon release an “atom bomb” of data that will send shockwaves through the election system, alleging that it is “already dead” and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were “rigged”.
He also claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi is sitting on his chair with a “thin majority” and had there been a difference of a few seats, he would have not been there. Gandhi further alleged that around 100 seats were “rigged” in the last election.
He cited data collected by the Congress from an assembly constituency in Karnataka, where the party checked the photographs and names of electors physically and reportedly found out that 1.5 lakh votes were “fake” out of a total of 6.5 lakh voters.
“You will see the shockwave that is going to go through the electoral system when we release this data. It is literally like an atom bomb,” he claimed.
“The truth is that the election system in India is already dead. Please remember one thing that the prime minister of India enjoys a very slim majority. If 10-15 seats were rigged, and we suspect the actual figures to be closer to 70-80 to 100, he would not have been the prime minister of the country,” the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha claimed.
“In the coming few days, we are going to prove to you without any doubt how a Lok Sabha election can be rigged, and it was rigged,” he alleged.
Gandhi will make public details of the “anomalies” in voter lists in the constituency in Karnataka on August 5 at Bengaluru’s Freedom park.
Sharpening his attack on the Election Commission, the former Congress chief said, “It’s very clear that the institution that protects this (Constitution), and defends it has been obliterated and taken over.”
He also claimed the Congress had a document on the Rafale deal, that said clearly that the prime minister’s office and the NSA “interfered” in the Rafale deal and “damaged” the Rafale deal.
“This document itself would have brought down any government in any country of the world. Nothing happened. You know where the document went, you know where the document died,” he said.
