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A team led by the party’s Delhi unit president, Om Prakash Kohli, met election commissioner Naveen Chawla with the complaint on Friday.
“The information technology cell of our party studied the electoral roll closely and we found that 11,24,781 duplicate voters have been added in the list,” Kohli told the media later. “In addition, there are nearly 15 lakh names in voter’s list with only minor differences.”
The BJP also presented a CD containing the list of duplicate names to election commissioner Chawla.
Emphasising that as many as 7 lakh voters were added to the list in one year running up to last November’s Assembly elections, Kohli said the difference in the share of votes between the Congress and the BJP was just 3 per cent. “What is the credibility of an election fought on the basis of an electoral roll that has gross irregularities?” Kohli asked.
The BJP is also discussing the possibility of moving the court on the issue.
Delhi’s electoral rolls are at present undergoing revision. As per the schedule for revision, the draft photo electoral rolls of all 70 Assembly constituencies were published on January 12. The Election Commission had provided a window period till January 27 for Delhi citizens to get their names included, corrected or deleted.
The final roll will be published on February 10 based on the updated information. Kohli criticised this, too. “The Election Office has not distributed voter’s identity cards to all,” he said. “In such situation, making January 27 the last date for inclusion and correction of names is a very short time; it should be extended.”
The BJP has also sought a ban on ration cards being used as an identity proof while voting. Interestingly, senior BJP leader and former Chandni Chowk MP Vijay Goel had last year led a campaign to get ration cards included as one of the identity proofs for voters.
The BJP delegation also demanded that the Election Commission should form a joint team of its booth-level officers and booth-level agents of political parties to sort out the issue.
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if this trend continues then congress will be in power for decades.even if true voters want to change govt they cant
It is no secret that fake voters are the most stable voters of the Congress not only in Delhi but also in the north-east India. It is this curse of fake voters who are stealing our freedom from us slowly and giving it to the Congress on a platter. Nafisa Ali, the SP candidate from the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat in 2009 elections said in a talk show at NDTV to Mr. Shiv Khera:"I am very angry with you for asking for the deportation of Bangladeshis. We had a common culture for 5000 years. Why should they be sent back to Bangladesh?" If this is the mindset of the leaders of political parties then how can the people of this country feel safe? Our country is being stolen from us by these infiltrators and also other fast-growing groups of populations. It is time for the nationalist forces to rise and try their best to stop this nefarious game of the Gongress and the Marxists.A.L.RawalAssoicate Professor, DCAC,Delhi University
This is one of the dirty politics played by the thinktanks of Congress. This is the secreat of Sheila DIxit's glorius victory in the recent election. If the present Cm wants to clear the doubt let her dissolve the assembly and come on to fight on the basis of new electoral roll.
Isn't BJP also responsible for this .When they were in Govt they never raised this issue.I remember way back in 1989 election or was it 88,when BJP was the one who made people vote at 2 to 3 Booths
these are all bangladeshis. Now they are permanent resiedents of India. These dirty politics palyed by congress.
Got it but too late.The same kind of manipulations were done during elections in 2004.Even the electronic voting machines were manipulated with the use of remote-controls and this all was brain child of Congress heads including Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.This will repeat again lest absolute fool-proof measures are not used.There are over two million duplicate ration-cards only in Delhi.India must introduce new policy to extend sufferage for atleast matriculates if not graduates who must bring needful credentials to establish the authenticity of identity before casting vote.
i am sure Congress would have played such a dirty game to win in Delhi.Dont forget Congress is being led by Indira khan loyalists.We are very much aware of what Indira Khan did for the sake of power.
The Election Commission should be clean and discard the fake voters list. We rather have an Army rule than these frauds or assassins ruling the party. Stop it from immediate effect or nobody will trust the election Commission.