Rahul Gandhi has also made allegations of vote theft in Maharashtra assembly elections.
In the Lok Sabha, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is constantly accusing of theft. Along with the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he has also made allegations of vote theft in Maharashtra Assembly elections. Along with this, awareness campaign has been started across the country. Let us know when the cases of votes theft came up in the world?
The biggest question is, is the vote theft? Actually, vote theft means nothing but rigging in elections. Cases like voter list disturbances, someone's vote by another person, registering names in the voter list in more than one place can be seen as vote theft.
To curb this, the Congress has now supported its leader Rahul Gandhi's demand to give digital voter list. A website has been released to raise support for this demand. Along with this, a mobile number has also been issued to connect people with this campaign through missed calls.
There have been allegations of rigging in the presidential election of America, the most powerful country in the world. US President Donald Trump himself made allegations of rigging in the 2016 elections. However, later he himself got caught in the case of rigging in the election.
Donald Trump was accused of rigging Georgia in the presidential election held in 2020. It was alleged that Donald Trump tried to reverse Biden's victory by pressuring the officers of Georgia. It was alleged that Trump and Georgia State Secretary Brad Refenspeger had talked on the phone to influence the election. In this, Trump had asked Refectionsperger to find the necessary votes to win the election in Georgia. However, later Trump has been continuously denying any such rigging. Apart from this, American intelligence agencies had reported that Russia intervened in the presidential election. Now Trump is repeatedly quoting the Russian President that Russia did not intervene in his election.
Allegations were made on Donald Trump.
In Türkiye, there were large scale allegations of rigging in the general election held on June 7, 2015. It is another matter that then the ruling justice and development party lost the election with 40.9 percent votes. Despite this, there were allegations that during the election campaign, the then President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had planned to rigged. It also included that the ruling party used government machinery in the election.
The biggest accusation was that of wrong voter data. Just as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is making allegations of mistake in the voter list, similarly the President of Turkey was accused of misuse of voter data. Türkiye's Supreme Electoral Council was then accused of printing excessive ballot paper, which increased the dispute even more.
Romania's presidential election held in 2014 was also under question. The first phase of the election was completed on November 2, 2014, but no candidate received more than 50 percent of the votes, so elections were held again on 16 November 2014. In this, Klaus Iohannis was declared President. The voters then demonstrated against it and questioned the entire voting process.
Questions were also raised on this conclusion, because the new President was not in the race just before the second phase of elections. In this election, there were allegations of bribery. It was said that 6.5 million people were distributed food during the election campaign.
The then Turkish President Erdogan was accused.
The general election held in Kenya in December 2007 was also rigged. In this election, there was a direct contest between Kibaki and Rayla Odinga. Rayala was clearly ahead in the opinion poll, while Kibaki was declared the winner. However, Odinga's party won a majority in the National Assembly. Odinga's party got a majority in six out of eight states of the country.
In such a situation, questions were being raised on the election. In view of this, Kibaki took over in a hurry, after which violence erupted across the country. In this, 1300 people were killed while more than six lakh migrated. However, later Odinga and Kibaki formed the government together and Oldinga was made Prime Minister.
