Raja Warring: BJP, ECI’s role in poll fraud stands exposed after Rahul Gandhi’s evidence

Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission of India (ECI) of being complicit in large-scale electoral frauds, saying they stand “completely exposed” after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi presented “irrefutable evidence” of manipulation in voter rolls.

Addressing a press conference in Amritsar along with senior party leaders Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Harpartap Singh Ajnala, Dr Raj Kumar Verka and others, Warring detailed how the BJP, in alleged collusion with the ECI, had used “novel and calculated” methods to win elections by tampering with voter lists.

“In Maharashtra, the BJP added about one crore votes within four months after facing defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, enabling them to turn the tide in the Vidhan Sabha polls,” Warring said. “In Bihar, the same party is now using the reverse trick, deleting over 60 lakh voters, most of them Dalits, minorities, adivasis and labour class people, because they believe these communities will not vote for them.”

He alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process was being used in Bihar as a tool to disenfranchise these groups, with the ECI demanding multiple hard-to-obtain documents, such as birth certificates, passports, educational certificates, domicile certificates or government-issued ID, within just one month.

Warring also cited Rahul Gandhi’s presentation of evidence from Karnataka’s Mahadevapura assembly segment, where one lakh bogus voters were allegedly added. “The BJP got a lead of 1.16 lakh votes from Mahadevapura, which falls under the Bangalore Central constituency, and won that Lok Sabha seat by only 32,000 votes. Without the fake votes, they would have lost,” he said, adding that similar tactics were used in at least 70 parliamentary constituencies nationwide.

Quoting Rahul Gandhi, Warring said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hold on power rests on a slim majority secured through such manipulations. “Had they lost just 25 more seats, Modi would not have been Prime Minister,” he remarked, warning that the same tactics, now being used in Bihar, threaten to further erode democratic rights.