NEW DELHI: The
Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday slammed Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi for allegedly "crushing" a police constable during a roadshow in Bihar’s “Vote Adhikar Yatra.”
In a social media post on X, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla shared a video in which a car carrying Rahul Gandhi was seen running over a police constable. The policeman was later seen limping.
“Rahul Gandhi’s car crushed a police constable who was critically injured,” Poonawalla said
“The dynast did not even get down to check on him,” he added
However, the Congress leader was later seen making the police officer sit in his car.
The incident comes amid the opposition’s campaign against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
The ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra,’ which began on Sunday from Sasaram, is a 16-day march aimed at protesting against the SIR and alleged “vote chori.” The rally will culminate in Patna on September 1 after covering more than 1,300 km across 20 districts.
Earlier, Rahul had accused the EC of colluding with the BJP to “destroy Indian democracy and steal elections,” and argued that if the EC does not provide electronic voter data of 10–15 years and CCTV footage, then it is “partaking in crime,” since these are now “evidence of crime.” He urged the judiciary to intervene to save Indian democracy.
Citing the study, Rahul claimed the BJP won Bangalore Central by 32,707 votes while 1,00,250 fake votes were polled in its favor. He said the fake votes fell into five categories: duplicate voters (11,965), fake/invalid addresses (40,009), bulk voters at a single address (10,452), invalid photos of voters (4,132), and “misuse of Form 6” for first-time voters (33,692).
Showing files, he cited examples to argue that people had voted multiple times in different booths of the seat, while voter list addresses included “Street 0” and “House no. 0.” He said there were cases where as many as 80 voters were shown at one address, or 50 in a single one-bedroom house, and that attempts to cross-check resulted in either researchers being beaten up or confirmation that the voters did not live there.
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