With LoP Rahul Gandhi having created political furore again with 'voter fraud' remarks against ECI, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday strongly refuted the claims made by the Congress leader . Maintaining that the opposition was running a “malicious plan” to discredit constitutional organisations, the Rijiju said that leaders within the opposition have begun to oppose him on such utterances.
While reiterating that the Congress leader was “threatening” Constitutional organisations, the Union Minister said,
“even the opposition party leaders have started to oppose Rahul Gandhi internally… People have started saying Rahul is playing a dirty game and wants to destroy the country’s image…” .
“This is not the first time Rahul Gandhi is threatening Constitutional organisations… This is a huge conspiracy to weaken democracy… This is a very dangerous behaviour and approach. The opposition is running a malicious plan to discredit constitutional organisations. It is an attack on democracy…” Rijiju said. Rijiju highlighted the growing divide between the opposition and claimed that even opposition leaders had started internally opposing Rahul Gandhi.
This comes after Rahul Gandhi levelled serious allegations against the Election Commission of India, and accused it of direct involvement in large-scale voter fraud, with the Congress having “open-and-shut proof” of the alleged theft.
Talking to reporters on the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, the Congress leader alleged that the motive behind the voter fraud was to benefit the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Rahul Gandhi said, “Votes are being stolen. We have open-and-shut proof that the Election Commission is involved in this vote theft. And I’m not saying this lightly, I’m speaking with 100% proof. And when we release it (proof), the entire country will come to know that the Election Commission is enabling vote theft. And who are they doing it for? They’re doing it for the BJP.”
Gandhi said that the findings of an investigation by the Congress amount to nothing short of an “atom bomb,” with implications severe enough to shake the very foundations of the ECI.“We had suspicion of voter theft, and we got into its granularity. Since the Election Commision was not helpful in the investigation, we did our own. It took six months and the things we found are an ‘Atom Bomb’ and when this atom bomb explodes you won’t see Election Commission in the country,” he added.
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