Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is also the leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government, alleging ‘large-scale electoral fraud’ in the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections. At a press conference in New Delhi, Mr Gandhi claimed that as many as 2.5mn (million) votes in the state were ‘fake’, alleging a coordinated effort to alter the results and deny the Congress party a legitimate victory. Displaying a photograph of a woman he claimed was a Brazilian model, Mr Gandhi alleged that her image had been used in the Haryana voter list across multiple booths. “She voted 22 times in Haryana from 10 different booths under various names — Seema, Sweety, Rashmi,

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