'No bigger anti-national act than vote chori': Rahul Gandhi attacks BJP in Lok Sabha - Top quotes

During the Lok Sabha debate on electoral reforms, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi launched a sharp attack on the BJP, alleging serious irregularities in the Haryana elections and accusing the Election Commission of failing to protect the integrity of India’s democracy.

Gandhi said India is not just the world’s largest democracy but “the greatest democracy” and argued that safeguarding the vote was central to its identity. “Vote chori is an anti-national act,” he declared, claiming the Haryana polls were “stolen”.

He again cited what he called repeated entries of a “Brazilian woman” in the state’s voter rolls. “We have a Brazilian woman who appears 22 times in the Haryana voter list,” he said, insisting the Election Commission “has no answer to these questions”.

Gandhi also questioned changes to laws governing election commissioners and CCTV rules, alleging they undermined accountability.

Top quotes:

• Biggest anti-national act you can do is vote 'chori'; when you destroy vote, you destroy idea of India.


• Want to ask three questions which will make it clear that BJP is directing, using EC to damage India's democracy.


• Why PM, HM gave gift of immunity to election commissioners by changing law; why was law on CCTV footage
  changed?


• “Why was CJI removed from the selection panel for appointing election commissioners?


• "On 30th January, 1948, three bullets pierced the chest of Mahatma Gandhi. Nathuram Godse assassinated the father of our nation. Today, our friend does not embrace him. Today, our friends have pushed him away. This is an uncomfortable truth. But that's not where the project ended. As I said, everything has emerged from the vote. All the institutions have emerged from the vote. So it's obvious that the RSS has to capture all the institutions that have emerged from it. After Gandhiji's assassination, the next step of the project was the wholesale capture of India's institutional framework."