NEW DELHI: A contemporary jibe added to Rahul Gandhi’s string of assaults on the Election Commission, as the Congress MP and Lok Sabha LoP on Saturday used a parody clip from the Hindi movie “Laapataa Ladies” to focus on the ballot physique.Sharing a one-minute video impressed by Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies, Rahul posted on X: “Chori chori, chupke chupke… Ab aur nahi, jantaa jaag gayi hai” (Now, no extra, the general public has woken up).In the video, a person walks right into a police station to report a theft. While the policeman lists normal stolen gadgets, the person responds that he has fallen sufferer to “vote theft.”Meanwhile, the Congress get together has urged individuals to affix its “Vote Chori se Azaadi” marketing campaign in help of Rahul’s allegations towards the Election Commission and BJP. Rahul additionally introduced the launch of “VoterAdhikarYatra” from August 17 in Bihar, calling it a direct struggle towards vote theft.“From August 17, with #VoterAdhikarYatra, we are launching a direct fight against vote theft from the soil of Bihar,” he stated on X.This comes amid INDIA bloc protests and Rahul’s repeated cost that elections are being manipulated. On August 7, he alleged: “Elections are choreographed. Our internal polling told us we would win 16 seats in Karnataka; we won nine. We then focused on seven unexpected losses. We chose one Lok Sabha, and our team decided we could only focus on one Vidhan Sabha (seat). So we focused on Mahadevapur. Here is the broad math. All data is 2024 data from the Election Commission. Total votes polled in the Lok Sabha were 6.26 lakh. The BJP won with 6,58,915, securing a margin of 32,707. But then we look at Mahadevapura, where Congress polls 1,15,586 and BJP polls 2,29,632. Congress wins all Vidhan Sabhas but this one. This seat wins them the election.”He additionally stated on August 7 that “Elections are choreographed and EC colluding with the BJP.”



