‘Jalebis will be distributed at 8.30 am, EC will be criticized at 11.30 am’: BJP takes jabs at Congress for celebrating victory before result | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: National spokesperson of the BJP Shehzad Poonawalla has criticized the Congress for what he describes as a contradictory stand on the recent elections in Haryana. After celebrating their first victory, Congress leaders quickly started questioning the credibility of the Election Commission over alleged discrepancies in voter data.
Questioning this shift in a series of comments, Poonawalla said: “From 8:30 am to 9:00 am Pawan Khera was handing out Jalebis; at 11:30 a.m. their spokespeople began criticizing the election commission. By afternoon, Jairam Ramesh started asking questions about the country’s institutions and at 2 pm, Congress will question the intelligence of the voters,” Poonawalla said.
He added, “Be it J&K or Haryana, the Congress has gotten the message that pehalwan, Jawan, nau Jawan, kisan sab karte hain Modi ka samman aur Rahul Gandhi hai nafrat ki dukaan,” referring to a broader sense of support for the prime minister. Narendra Modi.
In response, Congress leader Pawan Khera alleged that there were discrepancies in the vote counts reported by the Election Commission (EC) on television. “There is a discrepancy between the actual number of rounds counted and the number of rounds shown on television through the Election Commission data,” Khera said.
He accused the EC of lagging behind in updates, claiming they were showing fourth or fifth round results when eleven rounds had already been counted. Khera further suggested that the delay in data reporting could be an attempt to influence the local administration, saying, “In J&K you get live data with every round counted, but in Haryana it is not so.”
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh echoed these concerns and accused the EC of trying to influence the election results. “Like the Lok Sabha elections, we are once again witnessing a delay in uploading current trends on the ECI website in Haryana. Is the BJP trying to put pressure on the administration by sharing outdated and misleading trends?” Ramesh wondered.
Despite exit polls predicting a Congress victory in the elections, current trends indicate that the BJP may be on course for a hat-trick victory in the Haryana Assembly elections.