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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday called the Haryana elections a lie, saying the voter list in the state is flawed.

He asserted that a corrupt electoral roll weakens democracy and stressed that the opposition will work together on the next course of action, while appealing to Haryana’s youth and citizens to recognize the seriousness of the issue.

Rahul Gandhi’s continued emphasis on young voters, especially Gen Z, was once again evident as he presented what he claimed was a third set of evidence of election rigging by the Election Commission and the ruling BJP, during a press conference in New Delhi on November 5.

Haryana where Congress lost to the BJP last year in Lok Sabha Assembly Elections 2024 and Bihar, where the party is aiming to oust the BJP-JDU alliance in this month’s polls, were central to his allegations that lakhs of fake voters were either added or removed “to help the BJP.”

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His focus on Gen Z broadly those born in the late 1990s and the same demographic that recently led protests toppling a government in neighboring Nepal was apparent from the very beginning of the Wednesday press briefing at the Congress national headquarters.

“I want Gen-Z to take this seriously, because your future is being taken away from you. They are the one being stolen from,” he said at the start of his presentation, a days before voting begins in the Bihar election.

“India’s Gen Z and youth have the power to restore our democracy with satya and ahimsa (truth and non-violence),” said a concluding slide in his presentation.

While addressing a press conference, Rahul Gandhi said, "Every single party understands this. There is nothing hidden here. The fundamental question of an election is the integrity of a voter list...We are showing you that Haryana voter list is flawed, rubbish. If this is flawed, elections are fundamentally flawed. We have been suspecting this again and again...Now, we have proof that the voter list in India is a lie. If the voter list is a lie, there is no democracy...How we proceed, we will coordinate with the Opposition, we will work together but the fundamental thing that the youth of India and people of Haryana have to understand is that there was no election in Haryana, it was a lie."

He claimed that 3.5 lakh voters were removed from the rolls ahead of the Haryana legislative assembly elections and shared recordings of self-proclaimed victims and witnesses.

Gandhi claimed that multiple people cast votes several times at different booths.

He accused the Election Commission of ignoring duplicates to favour the BJP and said the government in Haryana and at the Centre was "not legitimately formed."

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"Let's get duplicates. They have duplicate photos, we have 223 photos in one booth...we have the same photo appearing again and again. We have a gentleman who is voting 14 times - in booth 508, booth 431. We have another man, Rudrabhishek Jain - he is voting in booth number 130, booth 131. His brother is also voting; they have 18 votes. EC can remove duplicates in a second...You don't even need AI for that...But they don't do it because they are helping the BJP," he said.

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