Boston/New Delhi: The Election Commission is “compromised”, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged at an event in the US as he attacked the poll panel citing turnout figures in the Maharashtra election.
Gandhi noted that he had been raising the issue earlier also and alleged that “there is something wrong with the system”.
The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha claimed that, in simple terms, more people voted in the Maharashtra assembly elections than there were adults in the state.
“The Election Commission gave us a voting figure for 5:30 pm, and between 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm, 65 lakh voters voted. This is physically impossible to happen. For a voter to vote, it takes approximately three minutes, and if you do the math, it would mean that there were lines of voters till 2 am, but this did not happen,” he said.
“When we asked them for the videography, they not only refused but also changed the law so that now we are not allowed to ask for the videography,” Gandhi said.
“It is very clear to us that the Election Commission is compromised, and it is very clear that there is something wrong with the system. I have said this multiple times,” he said.
Rahul Gandhi arrived in Boston on Saturday night and began his interactions with the business and Indian community members. He will visit Brown University in Rhode Island on April 21-22.
At Brown University, Gandhi will give a talk and interact with faculty members and students.
