Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has intensified his allegations of vote theft. Targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Election Commission, he alleged that 2.5 million fraudulent votes were cast in the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections. He claimed that 5.21 lakh duplicate voter entries were found, many of which used the same photo with different names. Rahul Gandhi alleged that 2.5 million votes were stolen in Haryana. In the same press conference, he cited another example: a woman’s photo, believed to be that of a Brazilian model, was listed 22 times in the state’s voter list under different names, such as “Sweety,” “Seema,” and “Saraswati.” Brazilian model Larissa expressed shock at the alleged use of her photo multiple times in Haryana’s voter list.
Reacting to this news, Brazilian model Larissa shared a video on Twitter (formerly Twitter) expressing her shock and disbelief at the misuse of her photo for electoral purposes in India. Speaking in Portuguese, she jokingly said, “Guys, I’m going to tell you a joke. It’s terrible! Are they using an old photo of mine? That photo is very old, from when I was young. Now they’re using my photo to vote in India, to make me Indian and make me fight each other! Look, this is so crazy!”
In the video, Larissa revealed that a journalist contacted her office and Instagram account seeking comment on this alleged involvement in the Indian elections. “They sent me another photo and said, ‘You won’t believe this. This is bizarre.'” The video quickly went viral on social media. AI translation and analysis of her reaction revealed that Larissa’s tone was both surprised and amused. She was also laughing at the bizarre situation. She also told that it was one of her old photos, when she was only twenty years old.
During a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, November 5, Rahul Gandhi stated that his team had found evidence of systematic manipulation that turned Congress’s victory into defeat. He said, “This is a case of massive rigging with 100 percent proof. One in every eight voters in Haryana is fake. Haryana has 20 million voters, of which 2.5 million are fake.”
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The Congress leader said the image appeared repeatedly in the voter lists of the Rai assembly constituency and alleged that it had been uploaded from a central server. The Congress leader also further pointed out that the same image was available online and could be traced back to Brazilian photographer Matheus Ferrero, whose work is featured on the stock photo website Unsplash.
Following Gandhi’s press conference, social media users launched a frenzy of searches to uncover the identity of the woman. However, reports later clarified that the person in question is not a model, as many speculated. ThePrint reported that the viral image was a publicly available stock photograph, adding yet another layer of intrigue to Gandhi’s explosive claim of “vote chori” in Haryana.
