'I want India's GenZ to understand ... ': Rahul Gandhi accuses EC, BJP of 25 lakh voter theft in Haryana - key quotes

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of “stealing” the mandate in the Haryana Assembly elections, claiming that a deliberate plan was executed to convert Congress’s victory into a BJP win.

Speaking at a press conference, Rahul Gandhi said the Congress had received “numerous complaints” from its candidates about irregularities during the vote count, suggesting the tampering occurred at the state and national levels.



He announced that the party had compiled evidence under what he called the “H Files,” detailing how the alleged manipulation took place.

He also criticised the Election Commission and said the democratic process was being subverted, warning that the future of India’s youth was being “destroyed.”



Key quotes:

• “We have the word 'H' Files and this is about how an entire state has been stolen. We suspected that this is not happening in individual constituencies, but at the state level and at the national level.”
• “We got a lot of complaints in Haryana, from our candidates, that something was wrong and not working. Their predictions all went upside down.”
• “We had experienced this in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra but we decided to zoom into Haryana and go into details about what had happened there.”
• “The democratic process in the country is being destroyed, and the future of Gen Z is being destroyed along with it.”
• He claimed that, "one person had 223 votes in two booths with same photo in Haryana, this is why EC destroys CCTV footage."
• 1.24 lakh voters with fake photos in Haryana electoral list.
• One in eight voters in Haryana electoral list fake.
• He claimed theft of 25 lakh votes in Haryana, says it includes 5.21 lakh duplicate voters, 93,174 invalid voters and 19.26 lakh bulk voters.
• Rahul Gandhi asks why EC not removing 'duplicate' voters from electoral list even though it has software to do so.
• “I am questioning the Election Commission and the democratic process in the country and therefore, I am doing so with 100 per cent proof.”
• “Operation Sarkar Chori was launched to convert the landslide Congress victory into loss in Haryana.”
• “The Chief Election Commissioner and the two election commissioners colluded with the BJP to ensure its victory in Haryana. They are in partnership with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
• “CEC Gyanesh Kumar is lying to the people of India when he stated that house number zero is given to homeless people. That is the reality of zero number houses.”
• “Why is the Election Commission not removing duplicates? It is because if it does so, it would result in fair elections and it doesn’t want fair elections.”
• “All polls pointed to a Congress victory in Haryana. The five top exit polls said Congress is sweeping.”
• “For the first time in Haryana, the postal votes were different from the result. In postal ballots, Congress got 73 seats while the BJP got 17 seats.”
• “Thousands of people associated with the BJP voted both in UP and Haryana.”
• “This shows that this was a centralised operation.”
• “There were 25,41,144 ‘vote chori’ entries on the list which are fake in Haryana.”
• “One in 8 voters in Haryana are fake and despite that the Congress loses by 22,779 votes which was the difference in eight seats.”
• “I was in shock, I simply could not believe what we found. I asked the team to cross check multiple times.”
• “I want young people, Gen Z to understand this clearly as your future is being stolen.”
• “We suspected, once we did Mahadevapura and Aland, that this is not happening in just one constituency but this is being done at the state and national level.”