Claims PM ended military conflict with Pak within 5 hrs of getting Trump’s instruction
Muzaffarpur (Bihar): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the BJP of winning polls by “stealing votes with the help of the Election Commission (EC)”.
Gandhi, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “immediately stopped India’s action against terror camps in Pakistan following US President Donald Trump’s directions”.
He was referring to the ceasefire between India and Pakistan during Operation Sindoor in May.
The Centre maintained that both countries halted their military actions in May following direct talks between their militaries without any mediation by the US.
“Gujarat model is about ‘vote chori’. The BJP started stealing people’s votes from there. The BJP wins polls by stealing votes with the help of the EC. We will continue to provide evidence to show how votes in the assembly and Lok Sabha polls were stolen,” Gandhi claimed at the Mazuffarpur rally as part of the Congress’ ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’.
He also demanded the Election Commission’s explanation over the “deletion” of names of 65 lakh voters as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar.
“The EC must explain why names of 65 lakh voters were deleted from electoral rolls in the state,” the Congress MP said.
Speaking on Operation Sindoor, Gandhi alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had agreed to call off the military conflict with Pakistan in May “within five hours” of being asked to do so by US President Donald Trump.
“You know what Trump has said today? He has said that at the height of tensions with Pakistan, he called up Modi and peremptorily told him to stop the fight within 24 hours. And Modi obeyed promptly. He was given 24 hours, but he did as directed by Trump in five hours,” alleged the former Congress president.
The allusion was to a video of Trump in which he can be seen addressing a cabinet meeting at the White House.
The US President has been insisting that the standoff between India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, was brought to a halt upon his “intervention”, a claim that has been rejected by the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.
The centre government asserted that India and Pakistan halted their military actions in May following direct talks between their militaries without any mediation by the US.
Gandhi trained his guns at the media, saying “the media will not show you what Trump has said since it cares only for Modi and his friendly business tycoons and not people like me, Stalin or Tejashwi”.
