The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hit back at the Congress’s fresh allegations of vote theft in the wake of what reports suggest were repeated objections by the two election commissioners to decisions made by the Election Commission of India.
The Congress alleges “dictatorship” in ECI, but the BJP insists the opposition is misconstruing a sign of healthy democracy
“This is an official deliberation among the three election commissioners. What do we gather from this? The BJP did not go and plant a story in the media saying that there had been official deliberations among them. Patra used a Bengal reference to trash the opposition’s vote theft claim. Read: ‘Invisible Hand, Vote Chori’: Congress Leads Attack On Poll Body After ‘Dissent’ Report “Vote chori is a crime against the Indian people and a direct attack on our constitution. The BJP, RSS, and EC, who organised it, have committed an act of treason.
Citing the Express report, he pointed out that among the 20 assembly seats in Bengal that saw the highest voter deletions during SIR, the Trinamool won 13 seats, the Congress one, and the BJP six.
Mounting an attack on the BJP, the Congress alleged that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is acting like a “dictator” and engaging in “vote theft” to please the ruling party. Such deliberations are actually a sign of a healthy democracy,” he said. “If there was vote theft, how did anyone else win?” he wondered. Justice will be served,” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said.
