BOSTON :
FORMER Congress President Rahul Gandhi has cited the Maharashtra Assembly polls to allege that the Election Commission is “compromised” and “there is something wrong with the system”.
Gandhi arrived in the US on Saturday.
Speaking at an event here on Sunday, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha claimed that, in simple terms, more people voted in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections than there are adults in the State.
“The Election Commission gave us a voting figure for 5:30 PM, and between 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM, 65 lakh voters voted.
This is physically impossible to
happen. For a voter to vote, it takes approx 3 minutes, and if you do the Math, it would mean that there were lines of voters till 2 AM, but this did not happen,” he said.
“When we asked them for the videography, they not only refused but they also changed the law so that now we are not allowed to ask for the videography,” Gandhi said.