Rahul Gandhi’s recent press conference alleging massive ‘vote chori’ in the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections was presented as a moment of revelation, a political crusader exposing a well-planned conspiracy. But once the claims are unpacked, what emerges is not evidence of electoral manipulation, but a meticulously orchestrated campaign of misinformation.
Each allegation in his so-called “H-Files” collapses under the weight of verifiable facts, exposing a pattern of deception, selective reasoning, and wilful distortion that has become the Congress party’s signature strategy.
In his first charge, Rahul Gandhi claimed that an elderly voter’s name appeared 220 times on the Haryana voter list, insinuating large-scale duplication and rigging. One after another, the lies peddled by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his “H-Files” press conference are being dismantled.
Among the most ludicrous was his claim about “multiple voting” in Haryana’s Mulana Assembly Constituency. During his press conference, Gandhi announced that 220 identical entries had been found at a polling booth in Dhakola village, suggesting large-scale duplication and vote rigging.
“The Election Commission needs to tell us how many times this lady, whose name we don’t know, whose age we don’t know, but we know she occurs 223 times in two booths. In the Lok Sabha election, she was there 223 times in one booth, and then they decided to split it into two booths,” Gandhi thundered dramatically.
He was referring to booth number 63 of Dhakola village. For the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections, that booth was split into booth numbers 63 and 64. In 2019, booth 63 represented Dhakola, while booth 64 represented Rampur.
However, in 2024, Rampur’s votes were reassigned to booth 65 onwards, and Dhakola itself was divided into two separate booths for administrative convenience. This is standard procedure followed by the Election Commission when the voter population in a booth crosses the prescribed limit.
What Gandhi portrayed as “evidence of duplication” was, in fact, a normal redrawing of polling booth boundaries, something that happens routinely across India before every major election. Even more telling is the outcome Gandhi conveniently ignored. Dhakola accepted Congress; it embraced it. Between 2019 and 2024, Congress significantly improved its vote share in the area, not only matching but overtaking the BJP.
In the 2019 elections, Congress had trailed the BJP here; by 2024, the numbers reversed dramatically. Dhakola voted decisively for Congress in both the 2024 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, while the BJP’s vote share dropped by nearly half.
In other words, Gandhi’s “evidence” of rigging comes from a booth where his own party won. To accuse the system of manipulation using a seat that turned in his favour defies logic and exposes the theatrical absurdity of his claim.
The list Gandhi brandished in his press conference, the so-called proof of a woman appearing “220 times”, actually came from the Mulana constituency, which Congress itself won. That alone dismantles the entire premise of his argument.
