Who is Larissa Nery, the ‘mysterious Brazilian Model’ mentioned by Rahul Gandhi, she works at…

New Delhi: In a significant political development amid the ongoing elections in Bihar, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has made serious allegations of vote theft in Haryana elections. The allegation made by the Congress leader consisted of large-scale voter fraud in Haryana which took a dramatic twist  when a photo of a Brazilian woman surfaced at the centre of the controversy. During a press conference titled “H Files” conducted on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the same woman’s image had been used 22 times in the state’s voter list under different names such as Saraswati, Sweety, and Seema, calling it “proof” of a “centralized operation” to rig the 2024 Haryana assembly election. The press conference has created a buzz around the claimed ‘Brazilian woman’.

What Rahul Gandhi said on ‘vote theft’ in Haryana elections?

“Who is this lady? What is her name? Where does she come from? But she votes 22 times in Haryana, at 10 different booths, and has multiple names,” Gandhi remarked, holding up a picture that has since gone viral on social media.

Who is ‘Brazilian Model’ Larissa Nery?

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 hori” in Haryana.