The Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer on Sunday issued a notice to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, asking him to furnish documents to prove his claim that a woman in Bengaluru Central’s Mahadevapura Assembly segment voted twice in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, ANI reported.

Gandhi, at a press conference on Thursday during which he alleged large-scale discrepancies in the Assembly segment, claimed that a woman named Shakun Rani voted twice during last year’s Lok Sabha election.

The chief electoral officer said that on inquiry, Shakun Rani said that she voted only once, and not twice.

“Preliminary enquiry conducted by this office also reveals that the tick marked document shown by you in the presentation is not a document issued by the polling officer,” the officer told Gandhi in the notice.

Gandhi on Thursday alleged that 1,00,250 “fake votes” were created in the Mahadevapura Assembly segment, which contributed to the BJP’s victory in the Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha seat in 2024. He accused the Election Commission of having colluded with the Bharatiya Janata Party in “destroying the election system”.

The leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha claimed that the electoral rolls included 11,965 duplicate entries, 40,009 voters with fake or invalid addresses, 10,454 “bulk voters” registered in a single address, 4,132 voters with invalid photographs and 33,692 voters in whose cases there had allegedly been misuse of Form 6.

The Election Commission’s Form 6 is an application document for registering new voters.

On Thursday, the Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka had asked Gandhi to send the names of electors who had been allegedly wrongly included or excluded “so that necessary proceedings can be initiated”.

The chief electoral officer had also asked Gandhi to sign an oath for each such name, adding that making false declarations was punishable under the Representation of Peoples Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

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