Rahul Gandhi Counts Opposition Pain with EC with Warning
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi Image credit INC India
EC Not Answering Questions for Inexplicable Reasons: Rahul
By Amit Kumar
New Delhi, January 15: Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi reiterated his attack on the Election Commission on Wednesday. The Congress leader warned the party leader that the Opposition has to face the “reality of compromised institutions” in the country.
“The BJP and the RSS have captured every single institution of the country,” said Gandhi in his address at the party office inaugurated today on Kotla Road. After a gap of 47 years, the Congress has moved to a new address.
“At the last Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, I clearly said that we have a serious problem with the result of the Maharashtra Assembly elections,” said Gandhi in his address. We are not comfortable with the way the Election Commission is holding elections, said Gandhi.
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The Congress leader said that “the new voters added to the voters’ list in Maharashtra, between the Lok Sabha elections and the Assembly polls, almost a crore, is problematic”. “I put a challenge clearly in front of the Election Commission that it is your duty to make the voters’ list transparent,” added Gandhi.
He said that the “Congress demanded from the Election Commission to share the voters’ list of the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections”. “We want to see names of voters and their addresses who voted in the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections. If they were to give the data, the problem will be solved,” added Gandhi.
However, the Congress leader said that the EC continues to deny sharing the voters’ lists of the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections with the Opposition parties. Gandhi also questioned the verdict of the Haryana Assembly elections.
The Congress leader put the EC in the dock, saying that the poll body remains evasive to the queries of the main Opposition party. The Congress lost both the Haryana and the Maharashtra Assembly elections.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) struck gold in the Maharashtra Assembly elections with a strike rate of 89 per cent. The BJP almost hit the halfway mark in the 288 seats Assembly by winning 132 constituencies.
The Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar while addressing a press conference had explained reasons for not sharing the CCTV footage of the polling booths. He had, however, not given any reason for not sharing the data of the voters’ lists of Maharashtra during the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections.
A total of 9.36 crore voters were eligible to vote in the Maharashtra Assembly elections. The Congress claims that Maharashtra added about one crore voters within six months since the Lok Sabha elections, which amount to addition of almost 13 per cent new voters in the electoral roll of the state.
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