Claiming that the 2024 Assembly elections in Haryana had been “stolen”, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi cited examples, among them a house in Palwal district’s Hodal with 66 voters and another with 501. He also said that in Sonipat district’s Rai, a stock photograph of a Brazilian national was used to cast votes 22 times at 10 booths. “She has got multiple names — Seema, Sweety, Saraswati, Rashmi, Vimla,” he said.

The Indian Express visited both places and found that in Hodal, the two addresses are, in fact, large plots where multiple homes exist and multiple families reside, many of whom said they had voted in the Assembly elections. And in Rai, The Indian Express tracked down four of the women whose photographs on the voter roll were of the Brazilian national. All of them had vot

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