Latest news with #Emergencyera

India Today

Serious questions: Shashi Tharoor backs Rahul Gandhi's vote 'chori' claims

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, of late at odds with the party high command, on Friday backed senior leader Rahul Gandhi's explosive allegations of a 'huge criminal fraud' in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections through collusion between the BJP and the Election Commission of India (EC).Tharoor's support came after Gandhi presented what he called 'concrete evidence' of widespread electoral rigging, accusing the poll body of working with the BJP to manufacture the ruling party's are serious questions which must be seriously addressed in the interests of all parties & all voters. Our democracy is too precious to allow its credibility to be destroyed by incompetence, carelessness or worse, deliberate tampering,' Tharoor said in a post on X, calling on the EC to act and clear the air. The remarks marked a shift in tone for Tharoor, whose outspokenness over the past six months — including praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and critical takes on the Emergency era — has earned his party's ire and become fodder for the BJP to attack the DROPS VOTE THEFT BOMBSHELLLeader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi alleged large-scale vote chori (vote theft) since the 2024 polls, and described the electoral process as 'staged.' He claimed the EC was in cahoots with the BJP and manipulated the centre of the allegations is the Mahadevpura assembly segment in Karnataka, where he alleged the BJP gained an inflated lead of 1,14,046 votes, enabling it to win the Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha seat by 32,707 votes, even though Congress led in most other demanded access to machine-readable voter data from the past 10-15 years and CCTV footage from polling stations. 'If the EC does not give us machine-readable data for the past 10-15 years and the CCTV footage, they are partaking in the crime,' he HITS BACKThe BJP rejected the Gandhi scion's "bogus claims", accusing him of insulting voters by calling the party's victory a fraud. It said his remarks stem from 'frustration and anger' over the Congress's repeated electoral the ruling party said, will continue to reject the Congress for such 'irresponsible and shameless' conduct.- EndsMust Watch