Imagine you walk into your village in bihar tomorrow to cast your vote—but when you check the list, your name has already been wiped out. Hundreds of your neighbours are listed as “deleted”. At the same time, someone else’s photo has been looped 223 times across two polling booths under different names. And the body tasked with protecting your vote, the election commission of india (ECI), refuses to show the CCTV footage that could expose exactly how this happened. That, says rahul gandhi, is no glitch—it’s fraud. He’s pulled back the curtain on what he calls a wholesale theft of democracy. Let’s break it down: bullet-by-brutal-bullet.

Voices from the Ground: Bihar’s Villagers Speak

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• At his press conference, rahul gandhi brought rural voters from bihar, saying they discovered hundreds of names deleted from their village’s rolls. 

• The message: This isn’t about big city politics—it’s affecting real people in remote hamlets the night before polling.

• With polls scheduled for tomorrow, the warning is loud and clear: check your name, or your vote might simply not count.

The 223-Vote Photo Scandal

• In his presentation, gandhi claimed one woman’s photograph was used to create 223 votes across two booths. 

• He further alleged a “Brazilian model’s” data-face appeared again and again under different names. 

• This isn’t about one error—it’s about a system exploited. If one data-face can be used hundreds of times, imagine the scale.

Deleted Voters + Weak Oversight = Rigged Future

• Voter roll revisions in bihar and other states saw massive “deletions” of names; rahul frames these as deliberate removals of supporters. 

• The ECI wasn’t prepared to publish CCTV footage from polling booths—raising the stakes of suspicion. 

• If you can’t verify who voted, when, and how—then how do you trust the result? The democracy is on fragile ground.

Haryana Was the Practice Run

• gandhi claims in the 2024 haryana assembly election there were 25 lakh fake voters, one in eight in that state. 

• He says his party was poised to sweep but lost because of this manipulated roll. 

• Now, with bihar up next, the warning: what happened in haryana could happen again—and with higher stakes.

What’s At Stake: Tomorrow’s Vote, Today’s Warning

• With polling imminent in bihar, the message is urgent: be alert, be present, check your name on the roll, ask questions at the booth.

• If deletions, duplicates, ghost IDs become the norm, then the mandate of the people becomes a charade.

• Democracy depends not only on voting—but on real people being counted, real names, real data-faces, real choices.

Who’s to Blame & What They’re Saying

• The bjp is accused of orchestrating the fraud; the ECI is accused of turning a blind eye. 

• The ECI’s response: no appeals were filed, and the claims must be made under affidavit. 

• The question: if evidence exists, will it be declared? Or will it disappear like the names said to be deleted from villages?

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🎯 Final Word

This is not a drill—it’s a wake-up call. When villagers in bihar can walk into a press conference and testify that their names are erased; when the same photograph appears hundreds of times on voter rolls; when the body that should guard the vote says “we can’t show the footage” — then the election ceases to be about choice, and becomes about control. 

If tomorrow’s polling in bihar proceeds under this cloud, then every result risks losing legitimacy. Because democracy doesn’t just rest on ballots—it rests on real voters, real names, and transparent processes. When those falter, the mandate is hollow. And the people don’t deserve that.