‘We should feel embarrassed’: Karnataka Minister Rajanna questions the Congress on the claim of ‘Vote Theft’; Asked to leave the post. Bharat News
New Delhi: Congress leader KN Rajanna resigned from the post of Karnataka Associate Minister on Monday, when the party’s high command allegedly asked him to step down. This followed his important comments about his own party, where he expressed concern that he had failed to address the alleged laps in the electoral role before the election. He said that the party should “feel embarrassed” because these “irregularities occurred before our eyes.”While he supported the party’s “irregularity” charge, Rajanna also questioned the Congress party’s malfunction, saying that the voter list was prepared when the Congress was in power.“At that time, was everyone just silently closing his eyes?” He asked, saying that the party should “feel ashamed”.“Look, if we start talking about such things only with carelessness, there will be different opinions. When the voter list was prepared? It was prepared when our own government was in power. At that time, everyone was just sitting silently with eyes.
The leader further said that at a time when the party should have lodged an objection, “it kept quiet”. “We did not take care of it at that time. That is why we should be cautious in the future …. In Mahadevpura, there was a really fraud. One person was registered at three different places and all three were voted. But when the draft election rolls are being prepared, we have to monitor it, okay? … When the drafts are electoral rolls, we should enter objections – this is our responsibility. At that time, we kept quiet and now we are talking, “he said.
Rajanna’s remarks undoubtedly turned the party high command, which marched to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on the alleged “vote theft”.
Karnataka Dupoot CM DK Shivkumar said that Rajanna was “completely at mistake” and the party’s leadership would respond to his comment.Earlier in the day, Rahul Gandhi refused to sign an oath declaration, supporting his “vote-chary” against the Election Commission of India, despite repeated calls from the election body.Saying that the documents he cited for his “vote theft” claims, the Congress leader called it a “one man, one vote” and questioned the situation of democracy, given that “300 MPs” were denied a meeting with voting. Their comment came after the release of Delhi Police during the protest of the EC office during the protest march of India block. “Why should I sign an oath? This is their data, not mine. They should take it from their website. They are simply attracting attention. And no one should think that it happened only in Bengaluru; it happened in many constituencies. Today, the Election Commission is trying to hide something, but I want to tell you that one day, everything will come out,” he said.
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