A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi held a press conference in Delhi, BJP senior leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday slammed Gandhi for spreading lies and said that he is betraying the democracy of the country.
Speaking at the press conference in Patna Prasad said, “I have spoken many times and again I am telling you that Rahul Gandhi does not do his homework; but what he had spoken yesterday he made a record.”
“He held a press meet yesterday. I ask what is the point of blaming Gyanesh Kumar who just acquired the post of Chief Election Commission, for the elections that were held in 2023 that too when the Congress party won the election,” he added.
“Have you lost all sense of purpose and propriety that in the 2023 voting of Vidhan Sabha your candidate won the seat and HC is hearing the challenge against that election you won by 248 seats,” Prasad said.
Speaking on the election commission, he said that ECI has already said FIR has been registered for attempting deletion of votes.
“He is raising questions about the election of his own candidate. It’s in his nature to lie about and blame people unnecessarily,” he said.
In a sharp political escalation, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of shielding those responsible for alleged mass voter deletions across India, calling it an attack on democracy.
Citing specific examples from Karnataka and Maharashtra, Gandhi alleged a systematic attempt to remove Congress-leaning voters using automated means.
The Election Commission firmly denied the charges as “baseless,” stressing that voter deletions follow due legal process, BJP’s Anurag Thakur slammed Gandhi, calling them “fabricated”, aimed at deflecting from Congress’s electoral setbacks.
