The officials, he added, have been facilitating vote theft.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav added his voice to ally Congress’s senior leader Rahul Gandhi to slam the Election Commission, saying they act like “puppets”.
The Indian Express has reported that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had raised questions about the process but their concerns went unheard. “The entire secret of the Election Commission has been exposed and they are working like puppets… Such a terrible thing would never have happened in a democracy,” he added. “Given such serious allegations, the Chief Election Commissioner should step down voluntarily. It has become clear that dishonesty was being orchestrated from there-forging signatures, improperly removing names, adding new names, and functioning as a puppet for the Bharatiya Janata Party,” he added. Maharashtra swings; suddenly that disappears. Uttar Pradesh swings from the Samajwadi Party to the Bahujan Samaj Party – that also disappears. Gandhi’s comment came following reports of internal dissent in the Election Commission over the Special Intensive Revision of voter lists.
Pointing to statements by Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the BJP would remain in power for 30 years and that the NDA would cross 400 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Gandhi said no political leader could be this confident. “Haryana swings from one party to another for 50 years, but suddenly anti-incumbency disappears.
” Inhone chunav Noucha (they have snatched away the election, they are poll snatchers (Chunav Nochwa) we have seen,” Yadav said. At a press conference in Delhi today, Rahul Gandhi had demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, calling him a “traitor”. And this has been a fundamental question for us… we cannot understand how anti-incumbency disappears,” he said. The Commission, though, has said that such comments are normal during a discussion.
