Patna, June 7 (UNI) Countering Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's allegation of 'match fixing' in elections, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Samrat Choudhary said that the real fixing happened during the Congress rule, and Election Commissioners were rewarded for it.

Chowdhary said here on Saturday that those who lose speak such rubbish. He alleged that match fixing used to happen during the Congress rule, when the Chief Election Commissioners were immediately rewarded after retirement for their loyalty to the ruling party.

Samrat asked Gandhi to explain whether appointing two former Election Commissioners, out of the seven Election Commissioners who were there during the Congress rule from 1967 to 2009 as Governors, three as Padma Bhushan, and one as Union Minister was a reward for match fixing or not?

He said that wherever the public rejects the Congress and the INDI alliance, they cry foul of match-fixing and put baseless allegations on the Election Commission. They try to cover up by branding their victory a 'victory of democracy' and their defeat as a result of match-fixing.

Realising their defeat as imminent, Gandhi was trying to set the match fixing narrative, Choudhary alleged, saying that the NDA was ready to face the election at any time.

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