EC denies Congress with “AI-generated” video claiming vote theft in Bihar | India Bloom

NEW DELHI: The confrontation between the Congress and the Election Commission (EC) escalated on Saturday after voting agencies accused the voting body of sharing “AI-generated” videos aimed at misleading voters in Bihar.

The committee argued that the state voter role was compiled with full transparency.

The video posted on the official parliament handle on X reflects repeated allegations made by party leader Rahul Gandhi.

It features a woman who claims that the vote was “stolen” as the dead, an elderly man who claims that 80 fake voters were registered in his one-room home, and another man who says his right to vote has been taken away.

Each of these clips had an “AI-generated” disclaimer.

The montage then calls for the removal of those who are “involved in the theft of votes” and urges people to join Gandhi's “Voters Adakal Yatra” in Bihar from Sunday.

Yatra is part of a Congressional campaign called “voting theft,” and suspects the irregularity of the state's special intensive revision (SIR) of election roles.

A few hours later, the EC fact-checked the post and called the video a “clear attempt to mislead voters in Bihar.” It alleged that the SIR process was being carried out according to the law, along with the involvement of election officials, booth-level officers and political parties.

“The election roles for each assembly constituency in Bihar are in accordance with the law and have full transparency by the relevant SDM/ERO, full participation of over 90,000 BLOs, and full participation of all electors,” the polling agency said in X.

It added that booth-level agents above Rs 1.6 Rs. 12 recognized political parties, including the Congress, are actively involved.

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Rahul Gandhi, who accused the election commission of conspiring with the BJP to allow voter fraud, had previously presented what he said was evidence of irregularities during the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

Citing an internal party investigation, Gandhi advocated for manipulation of mass voters in the Mahadevapura Congress segment in Karnataka.

The Congress also claims that the names of living voters were hit by the roll during the ongoing revisions in Bihar.

The dispute reached the Supreme Court this week.

On Thursday, the court instructed the EC to disclose the names of 650,000 people removed from Bihar's role and identify reasons for the voting agency including 22 lark entries that say it belongs to the deceased.

Other grounds previously cited by the EC include permanent shifts in voters, duplicate constituencies, or names that are not found during verification.

The committee has repeatedly argued that the exercise aims to cleanse the role and ensure that it includes “all eligible voters.”

In response to Gandhi's accusations, Congress leaders said they should prepare verifiable evidence and refrain from using terms like “voting Chori.”