Raja Warring: After Rahul Gandhi’s evidence, BJP and Election Commission’s role in election fraud got exposed

Punjab: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission of India (ECI) of indulging in massive electoral fraud and said they have been “completely exposed” after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi presented “irrefutable evidence” of voter list manipulation. Addressing a press conference in Amritsar along with senior party leaders Gurjit Singh Aujla, Harpratap Singh Ajnala, Dr Raj Kumar Verka and others, Warring detailed how the BJP, in alleged collusion with the Election Commission, adopted “new and calculated” methods to win elections by manipulating voter lists. “In Maharashtra, the BJP added nearly one crore votes within four months of facing defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, which helped them turn the tables in the Assembly elections,” Warring said. He further said, “In Bihar, the same party is now doing the opposite, deleting the names of over 60 lakh voters, mostly Dalits, minorities, Adivasis and working class people, because they believe these communities will not vote for them.”

He alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Bihar is being used as a weapon to disenfranchise these groups, with the Election Commission demanding several hard-to-get documents like birth certificates, passports, educational certificates, residence certificates or government ID cards within just a month. Waring also cited evidence presented by Rahul Gandhi from Mahadevapura assembly constituency in Karnataka, where one lakh fake voters were allegedly added. “The BJP got a lead of 1.16 lakh votes from Mahadevapura, which falls under Bengaluru Central constituency, and won that Lok Sabha seat by only 32,000 votes. Without fake votes, they would have lost,” he said. He further said that similar tactics were adopted in at least 70 parliamentary constituencies across the country. Quoting Rahul Gandhi, Waring said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hold on power rests on the slender majority achieved through such rigging. “If they had lost just 25 more seats, Modi would not have become the Prime Minister,” he said. He warned that the same tactics were now being adopted in Bihar, threatening further erosion of democratic rights.