Claiming that the 2024 Assembly elections in Haryana had been “stolen”, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi showed Wednesday a photograph of a woman which featured 223 times on the voter list in two booths during the polls. “The EC needs to tell us how many times she voted,” he said.

The EC may not have responded to Gandhi, but sitting at her residence in Dhakola village in Ambala district, 75-year-old Charanjeet Kaur has an answer: Voted just once.

The Indian Express visited the village that suddenly finds itself in the spotlight after Gandhi’s press conference, and found that Charanjeet’s photograph does appear alongside the names of at least 255 voters in booth numbers 63 and 65 in Dhakola village, which has a total of 2,117 registered voters. But for many of the 255, this isn’t br

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