The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was by making allegations of electoral irregularities during his visit to the United States.

BJP MP Sambit Patra called Gandhi a “traitor”, saying that the Congress leader had not only allegedly insulted India’s institutions and democracy abroad, but also because he had allegedly seized national wealth through National Herald. The comment was a reference to a money-laundering case linked to the newspaper.

At an event in Boston on Sunday, the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha cited the Maharashtra Assembly election result to allege that the Election Commission had been “” and that there was “something wrong with the system”, ANI reported.

Rahul Gandhi that more persons had voted in the Maharashtra polls than there were adults in the state.

“The Election Commission gave us a voting figure for 5.30 pm, and between 5.30 pm and 7.30 pm, 65 lakh voters voted,” Rahul Gandhi was quoted as having claimed. “This is . For a voter to vote, it takes approximately three minutes, and if you do the math, it would mean that there were lines of voters till 2 am, but this did not happen.”

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