'BJP IT Cell Knows Election Date Before EC': Tejashwi Launches Attack Day After Rahul's 'Poll Rigging' Claim

Tejashwi's allegations come after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that the 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections were a blueprint for rigging democracy.

File photo of RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav.

Source : PTI

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has launched an attack n the BJP-led government at the centre, alleging that the constitutional institutions have been hijacked since Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister.

"You all know that after 2014, since Narendra Modi became PM, all the constitutional institutions have been hijacked. BJP IT Cell knows the dates of elections before the ECI announces. We are keeping an eye on the matter. But the constitutional institutions should function honestly. If they are influenced, there wouldn't be any justice," Tejashwi Yadav said.

The RJD leader's allegations come after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in an article, claimed that the 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections were a blueprint for rigging democracy and alleged this match-fixing would next happen in Bihar.

Tejashwi Yadav also hit out at the Election Commission over 2020 Bihar elections questioning why the counting was stopped in the evening and resumed in the night on November 10, 2020.

"In the last 2020 elections, we had formed the government, the ECI did three PCs to justify, why the counting was stopped in evening? Why it resumed in the night? Those candidates who were announced as winners were later announced as losers," Tejashwi said.

The RJD leader, referring to Rahul Gandhi's allegations against the government, said that the same blueprint could be used in Bihar and other states "anywhere the BJP is losing."

In a post on X, Rahul Gandhi outlined the alleged electoral irregularities in a stepwise manner — fake voters are added, voter turnout is inflated, bogus voting is facilitated, and evidence is subsequently hidden.

The Election Commission rejected the charge, saying defaming the poll panel after an unfavourable verdict is absolutely absurd. 

The Congress leader also claimed in the article that this poll match-fixing would next happen in the Bihar elections and anywhere the BJP is losing.