Voter fraud being centrally carried out, Rahul Gandhi claims

Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi again raised the 'Vote Chori' issue. He alleged that Vote chori is happening at both the state and national levels.  At a press conference in New Delhi Gandhi on Wednesday alleged massive voter fraud in the 2024 Haryana assembly elections. Gandhi claimed that 25 lakh fake votes, or about 12 per cent of the state’s electorate, were cast. He alleged there was "systemic manipulation" to turn a Congress victory into defeat. “I want Gen-Z to take this seriously, because your future is being taken away from you,” he said.

It is clear to us that vote chori has now become a system. It has been industrialised, and it can be used in any state. It is going to be used in Bihar, and I am confident that after the Bihar elections we will get the same records.

Because the voter list comes out the night… pic.twitter.com/45lGopoWEw

— Congress (@INCIndia) November 5, 2025

He also said this was the first time in Haryana's history that the postal voting result was opposite to the results in polling booths. "I am questioning the Election Commission and the democratic process in India, and I am doing this with 100 per cent proof. We are sure that a plan was put in motion to convert Congress's landslide victory into a loss," he said. Citing an example, Gandhi shared 22 entries in the Haryana voter list with a woman's photograph. This is a photograph of a Brazilian model, he said. The photograph can be downloaded for free from a website that deals in stock photos. The Congress leader said this Brazilian woman's photo appears 22 times in the voter list under different names, "Sweety, Seema, Saraswati". "She votes in 10 different booths in Haryana and she has got multiple names. This means this is a centralised operation," he said.

"The Election Commission can remove duplicates in a second. Why don't they do it? Reason: they are helping the BJP," he said, showing several instances of voter IDs with the same pictures but different names in the state's voter list. Gandhi also claimed that 3.5 lakh entries were deleted from Haryana's voter list in the run-up to the polls.