A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged large-scale duplication in the Haryana voter list, questions have emerged over whether the Election Commission (EC) failed to fully utilise one of its own key verification systems in recent years. While Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has maintained that SIR is being held to remove duplicate voters and update the voter list, the opposition has been up in arms against the poll body.

Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday claimed that over 25 lakh votes were “stolen” in the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections, alleging the presence of 5.21 lakh duplicate entries. He said that in several cases, the same photograph appeared against multiple voter names, and even alleged that one photo matched that of a Brazilian model circulating online.

While duplic

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