Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi
New Delhi, Nov 7: The controversy surrounding Rahul Gandhi’s “H-bomb” allegations of massive voter fraud in Haryana intensified on Friday after NDTV revealed that the photo of a 75-year-old woman from Ambala appeared against 223 different voter IDs.
The woman, Charanjit Kaur, a resident of Dhakola village, told NDTV she had voted only once during last year’s Assembly elections but later learned that her photo appeared multiple times in voter lists under various names. “When I went to cast my vote, the photo was mine but against someone else’s name,” she said, adding that she immediately informed her son.
Her son, Tejinder Singh, who had contested the local sarpanch election, said he filed a complaint with election officials after discovering the duplication. “It seemed like a printing error, but no action was taken,” Singh said, adding that faulty voter lists cost him his election.
Earlier, NDTV reported similar discrepancies in Sonipat district’s Malikpur village, where several voters, including members of the same family, found their names missing. One voter, Anjali Tyagi, said she voted in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections but was unable to vote in the state polls held five months later.
The fresh revelations follow Rahul Gandhi’s explosive presentation on Wednesday, in which he accused the ruling BJP and Election Commission of engineering a centralised voter fraud operation. Gandhi cited an example of a Brazilian woman’s stock photo used on 22 voter IDs in Haryana, claiming it proved “one in eight voters” were fake — amounting to around 25 lakh votes.
“This means 12.5% of Haryana’s voters are fake,” Gandhi alleged, adding, “This is a centralised operation. Somebody fed this lady’s photo into the system at a central level.”
The woman whose photo was used, Larissa Nery, a Brazilian hairdresser, later released a video that went viral. “Guys, they are using an old photo of mine… I was 18 or 20 years old. They are portraying me as Indian to scam people. What madness!” she said.
Meanwhile, the BJP dismissed Gandhi’s claims as “baseless.” Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said the Congress leader was “shifting the narrative to Haryana” ahead of elections in Bihar.
Election Commission sources also rejected the allegations, stating that the Congress never filed any objections or appeals regarding the voter rolls during the Haryana election review process.
As the political storm grows, opposition leaders are demanding a thorough investigation into the alleged manipulation of voter data — a controversy that has already raised serious questions about electoral transparency and digital voter management in India.