New Delhi:
The woman at the centre of the ‘Brazilian model row’ told NDTV Thursday one of the fake voter ID cards Rahul Gandhi flagged this week – to add to what the Congress says is mounting evidence of large-scale fraud involving the Election Commission and the ruling BJP – is not actually hers.
“The card I have has my photo… the one Rahul Gandhi showed does not. I cast my vote. I don’t know whose photo is (on the fake card),” said the woman, who identified herself as Munesh.
On Wednesday Gandhi said a single voter ID – with the photo of a Brazilian woman, apparently downloaded from stock image websites – was used to vote 22 times in Haryana’s Rai last year, a seat the BJP’s Krishna Gahlawat won, beating the Congress’ Bhagwan Antil by 4,673 votes.
In response, the BJP’s Kiren Rijiju criticised Gandhi for raising “fake issues” hours before the start of voting in Bihar. “There’s nothing left in Bihar, so he’sDuring his presentation, Gandhi alleged massive voter fraud – 25 lakh votes, by his estimate – in the Haryana election. In that election the Congress got around 83,000 votes less than the BJP.
“This means one in eight voters in Haryana are fake… 12.5 per cent,” he said.
The Congress leader then offered Munesh’s ‘voter ID card’ as an example, and when someone pointed out the woman in the photograph did not appear to be from Haryana, he replied, “But she votes 22 times… she has got multiple names: Seema, Sweety, Saraswati, Rashmi, Vimla.”
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