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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged large-scale rigging in the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections, claiming that about 25 lakh fake voters had been added to the state’s electoral rolls. He displayed a photograph of a woman, whom he claimed is a Brazilian model, alleging that her image was used in voter rolls of several constituencies.

Gandhi accused the Election Commission of helping the Bharatiya Janata Party by not removing the duplicate voters and covering up evidence by “destroying CCTV footage”.

He also alleged that several BJP members were registered as voters in more than one state.

The system of “vote theft” had been “industrialised” and a similar manipulation would take place in the Bihar Assembly elections that begin on Thursday, he added. Read on.

Also read: 5 key takeaways from Gandhi’s Haryana polls rigging allegations

A day before the first phase of polling in the Bihar Assembly elections, the Jan Suraaj party candidate from the Munger constituency joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sanjay Singh’s defection turned the contest into a direct fight between the National Democratic Alliance and the Opposition Mahagathbandhan. Singh said he will support the BJP candidate.

In October, party chief Prashant Kishor had alleged that the BJP had forced three other Jan Suraaj candidates to withdraw from the elections. Read on.

Union minister Lalan Singh claimed that the video, based on which a police complaint was filed against him for violating the model code of conduct ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls, was doctored. Singh said that his remarks were misinterpreted and that his intention was to protect vulnerable voters allegedly being threatened by Rashtriya Janata Dal workers.

The Patna district administration had registered a first information report against the Janata Dal (United) leader on Tuesday after a video showed him urging supporters to prevent “a few leaders” from leaving their homes on the polling day.

It was unclear when the comment was made. The “few leaders” Singh was referring to were Opposition leaders, according to reports. Read on.

Indian-origin Democratic Party candidate Zohran Mamdani quoted former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech after winning the New York mayoral elections. Mamdani, 34, defeated ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo to become the first Muslim and South Asian to be elected as the city’s mayor.

“Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru,” Mamdani said. “A moment comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

This was part of Nehru’s historic speech “Tryst with Destiny”, delivered on the eve of India’s independence in 1947.

Mamdani’s speech ended with the song Dhoom Machale from the 2004 Hindi language film Dhoom. Read on.

Also read: Zohran Mamdani elected New York mayor: What this means for Democrats in the age of Trump

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