Overview
- Rahul Gandhi alleges a centrally run operation skewed the 2024 Haryana Assembly results, claiming about 25 lakh fake entries and showing a face he said appeared 22 times across 10 booths in Rai.
- The woman in the photo, identified as Larissa Nery in Brazil, says the image was a years-old stock photograph and that she has never been to India or involved in Indian politics.
- Journalists traced the picture to an Unsplash upload by photographer Matheus Ferrero in 2017; the file has since been removed from the platform, according to multiple reports.
- A booth-level officer in Rai told India Today she encountered the same stock image on three voter IDs, described them as misprints, and said she corrected cases where original photos were provided.
- Several people named in Gandhi’s presentation said their IDs suffered old printing or data-entry errors and that they voted in 2024, while the Election Commission dismissed the charges as unfounded and the BJP called them baseless.