India’s 2014 Election Manipulated? Ex-MP Points Finger at CIA and Mossad

In a stunning accusation, India’s former Rajya Sabha MP Kumar Ketkar claimed that the CIA and Mossad orchestrated the Indian National Congress’s devastating defeat in the 2014 elections. Ketkar alleges that foreign intelligence agencies aimed to prevent a stable Congress government, favoring a regime amenable to external influence. The ruling BJP dismissed the claims as baseless, while analysts note that the party’s historic electoral loss highlights concerns over election integrity and potential foreign interference—even if unproven.

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00:00In a startling accusation, leaders of India's largest opposition party, the Indian National

00:06Congress, alleged Wednesday that the United States Central Intelligence Agency and Israel's

00:12Mossad conspired to orchestrate their party's devastating electoral defeat in 2014.

00:19Speaking at a Constitution Day event in Mumbai, former Rajya Sabha M.P. Kumarketkar claimed

00:26that foreign intelligence agencies deliberately engineered the Congress Party's collapse

00:31from 206 parliamentary seats in 2009 to just 44 seats in 2014.

00:56Ketkar presented a mathematical argument.

01:08Had the party's upward electoral trend from 2004-2009 continued, Congress would have won

01:14approximately 250 seats in 2014 and retained power.

01:19Instead, the party suffered what Ketkar characterised as an engineered catastrophe orchestrated

01:26by Washington and Tel Aviv.

01:29Ketkar alleged that a game was launched ahead of the 2014 polls, with foreign intelligence

01:34agencies compiling detailed electoral data on Indian states and constituencies to ensure

01:40Congress would never return to power.

01:43According to Ketkar's allegations, the CIA and Mossad had strategic geopolitical motives

01:49for eliminating the Congress from Indian politics.

01:52He claimed both agencies believed that a stable Congress government or Congress-led coalition

01:58in New Delhi would resist foreign interference and limit their ability to implement policies

02:03favourable to US and Israeli interests in the region.

02:07Ketkar stated,

02:08If a stable Congress government or a Congress-led alliance government came back to power again,

02:14they would not have been able to interfere in India and implement their policies.

02:17Ketkar said,

02:18Ketkar said,

02:19The allegations suggest foreign powers preferred a majority government in New Delhi that would be

02:25more amenable to external influence, one that was specifically not led by Congress.

02:44The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, which swept to power in 2014 with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister,

02:52rejected Ketkar's allegations as baseless conspiracy theories.

02:57No independent evidence has emerged to support Ketkar's allegations.

03:02International election observers who monitored the 2014 Indian elections, Indian intelligence agencies

03:09and independent analysts have not reported any credible evidence of CIA or Mossad interference

03:15in India's democratic process.

03:18Ketkar's extraordinary allegation faces scrutiny from multiple fronts.

03:23First, the factual record.

03:25International election observers from the Election Commission of India

03:29and international monitoring organisations assessed the 2014 election as free, fair and competitive,

03:37with no evidence of foreign interference reported.

03:40Second, the logical problem.

03:42If the CIA and Mossad possessed the capability to rig Indian elections,

03:47they would have done so repeatedly across India's ten general elections since 1991.

03:52The claim that they specifically targeted 2014 strains credibility.

03:57Third, the political reality.

04:00Congress's electoral decline reflects documented domestic failures.

04:05However, Congress supporters counter.

04:08The party notes that the 2014 result was historically unprecedented in its magnitude.

04:14A swing from 206 to 44 seats represents an anomaly worth examining.

04:20They argue that foreign powers do engage in covert election interference globally,

04:25and India, as a strategic geopolitical player, could logically be a target.

04:31Congress contends that the lack of official complaints reflects India's political establishment's

04:37reluctance to acknowledge such interference publicly.

04:40Ultimately, political analysts observe that while Congress's domestic challenges are real,

04:46the party's raising of foreign interference concerns highlights broader anxieties about election integrity in the digital age,

04:54even if this specific claim remains unproven.

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