New Delhi: India’s Election Commission said on Thursday that during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka, the Leader of the Opposition on the allegations of Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s “vote theft” said that the Congress neither filed a single appeal with election officials with election officials, nor election during the final election in elections in elections in electionsTalking to reporters in the Parliament complex, Rahul claimed that the Congress has a “solid 100% evidence” of “cheating in an LS seat” in Karnataka and warned that “If you (EC) think you are going away with it … then you are wrong … We are going to come for you”. The Congress MP said that the protest will ensure that the EC is held accountable.Dismissing its allegations as a “baseless”, EC said: “It is highly unfortunate that instead of filing an election petition as per Section 80 of the Representation of Peoples (RP) Act, 1951, instead of filing an election petition, or if filed, HC is waiting for HC’s decision, but also to threaten the EC, which is a constitutional institution.”With its allegations more than a year after the result of LS Poll, EC said that “such baseless and threatened claims were being made against it and CEC, and that too now.” It said that the losing Congress candidates did not file a single election petition to challenge the result, despite the representation of the People Act, 1951, allowed it within 45 days of the declaration of the result. However, others filed 10 election petitions in HC.Competitioning Rahul’s “unfairly threatened statements”, the Karnataka Chief Election Officer (CEO) said that copies of the draft and final election roles for 224 assembly seats of the state were provided to recognized parties respectively, including Congress, respectively on 27 October 2023 and 22 January, 2024. Between the publication of drafts and final rolls, claims and objections of about 9.2 lakh were received and settled in 34 districts. The post said that neither the Congress nor any other institution takes advantage of the two-phase appeal option, which is available under the representation of the People’s Act, 1951.Meanwhile, RJD executive Tejashvi Yadav suggested the possibility of boycotting Bihar elections on special amendments to the electoral roll, KC Venugopal said that a political party has the biggest weapon in democracy and if it is compromised, the names are not being cleared and the lists are not being cleaned. “Do not let an election be held and one party. Let the Election Commission rule. This is what his remarks about boycotting Yadav meant, “Venugopal said.
