A discrepancy of almost 5 crores votes between the preliminary votes counted and the ultimate votes counted,” Pawan Khera mentioned in a submit on X.
“The report claims {that a} minimal of 79 seats in 15 states may have been gained by the NDA/BJP via the hike within the votes, implying that if true, the INDIA alliance would have the utmost seats within the parliament,” the submit additional added.
He urged the Election Fee of India (ECI) to deal with the report and supply clarification, asserting that if the report’s findings are true, it might mark a big turning level within the political historical past of Indian democracy.
What does the report say
The 226-page report accuses the ECI of being “unbefitting of a Constitutional authority” and alleges that the ballot physique has hit an “unprecedented low for the Establishment.” The report mentioned that the information of the seven section ballot was offered in a skeletal approach and that the information of the section 2 was by no means offered.
The report claims that there have been indicators of voting manipulation and potential rigging within the Lok Sabha 2024 elections. It alleged that the election course of was not free and truthful, with the Election Fee of India (ECI) typically appearing as a passive observer or collaborator.
“The ballot physique has evidently performed the Lok Sabha election 2024 in a biased and partial method to favour the ruling dispensation,” the report mentioned.
“We’re constrained to file that the conduct and perspective of the ECI is unbefitting of a Constitutional authority and its obscure responses on problems with checks and balances (entry to and checking of microprocessors and many others), concealment of information (so far no information is accessible for Part 2 of the elections held on April 26) represents an unprecedented low for the Establishment,” it mentioned.
The report alleged that the ECI didn’t maintain any press conferences, and ‘willfully’ ignored the conduct of the star campaigners of the “ruling celebration”, alleging that the ballot physique did not act on the violations of the Illustration of Individuals’s Act, 1951.
“By means of the lengthy drawn out election course of, a 7-Part ballot that was stretched out via an extremely scorching summer season, the ECI didn’t maintain any press conferences the place media may query allegations of irregularities, willfully ignored the relatively blatant conduct of star campaigners of the ruling celebration in breaching, with impunity when sections of the Illustration of Individuals’s Act, 1951 that outline “hate pushed divisive speech that hark to spiritual identification” as a “corrupt apply have been violated,” it mentioned.
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