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Rahul Gandhi may not be able to prove his claims of \u2018vote chori\u2019, but for now, his campaign is proving to be the glue for the Opposition which sees the impending cross-country SIR as a \u201ccommon enemy\u201d. (PTI)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Rahul Gandhi has found a new political war cry in \u2018Vote Chori\u2019, but for the BJP, it is the same, painfully predictable political playbook that does not find any fault in his party\u2019s election wins in Karnataka or Telangana, but blames it on \u2018fraud\u2019 when the party crashes in Maharashtra or Haryana.<\/p>\n

For BJP, Gandhi\u2019s rhetoric is merely a media campaign with no legal recourse towards courts. A top party source said Gandhi\u2019s real aim is to not prove his claims by judicial scrutiny but undermine public trust in institutions.<\/p>\n

The SIR protest march in Parliament on Monday served another purpose for Gandhi\u2014him bringing together the INDIA bloc for the first time on an issue after the Lok Sabha elections. Gandhi led the march with SP\u2019s Akhilesh Yadav, DMK\u2019s Kanimozhi, TMC MPs, RJD and the Left in tow. After over a year, the Opposition is finally uniting for a common cause.<\/p>\n

But, apart from that, Gandhi\u2019s strategy fails to look within, say top BJP sources. Like the party\u2019s inconsistent organisation or dwindling political cadre footprint across the country that had led to election setbacks. Or the party\u2019s weak leadership. The approach towards ECI, instead, gives a new insurance to the party\u2019s future losses\u2014that it is just not our fault.<\/p>\n

Another top BJP source points to other gross inconsistencies in Gandhi\u2019s claims. One, narrow wins being termed by him as instances of election fraud. According to the source, narrow wins are part of India\u2019s electoral history and there have been two instances of politicians winning by just one vote and umpteen examples of margins below a 1,000 votes or lesser.<\/p>\n

Phased polling in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls was also nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to Indian elections, the second BJP source mentioned above said. Congress also banks on exit polls to say the real results are quite the opposite (like in Haryana) and hence, cries fraud. But BJP points out how exit polls have been consistently proven wrong.<\/p>\n

It is also a fact that India\u2019s electorate is growing like its population. A 4.4 per cent voter growth in Maharashtra in 2024, which Congress has cited as suspicious, in fact was lower than under UPA in 2004 when it stood at 4.7 per cent, the first BJP source said. In 2024, Karnataka\u2019s voter rolls were managed under a Congress state government, which now cries fraud.<\/p>\n

The top BJP sources, in fact, point to duplicate voters in Congress bastions in Karnataka and claim that BJP has been at the receiving end of such a phenomenon in Malegaon Central, Kerala, Wayanad, Rae Bareli, as well as Diamond Harbour. BJP sources say it was the Bihar SIR exercise which eliminated \u2018electoral fraud\u2019 carrying on in the state for years.<\/p>\n

Gandhi may not be able to prove his claims of \u2018vote chori\u2019, but for now, his campaign is proving to be the glue for the Opposition which sees the impending cross-country SIR as a \u201ccommon enemy”. BJP hopes the Bihar result will prove to be the perfect answer to Gandhi\u2019s narrative, as the LoP moves from EVMs to \u2018Vote Chori\u2019, hoping desperately that something sticks.<\/p>\n

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Aman Sharma, Executive Editor – National Affairs at CNN-News18, and Bureau Chief at News18 in Delhi, has over two decades of experience in covering the wide spectrum of politics and the Prime Minister\u2019s Office…. Read More<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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