AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday accused the BJP of “largescale voter list manipulations” in the New Delhi Assembly constituency.
In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), he alleged that BJP Union ministers and MPs were “fabricating fake votes”. He cited 33 fraudulent entries allegedly registered at BJP candidate and his rival on the seat Pravesh Verma’s address, demanding immediate action, including the lodging of an FIR and Verma’s disqualification if he was found complicit.
Alleging that applications for creating “40 new voter IDs have been filed from the homes of several BJP ministers and MPs during December and January”, Kejriwal asked, “How is it that so many people suddenly started living in BJP MPs’ houses? There are cases where a single-room slum has (sent) applications for 30 new voter IDs, or a small shop has (sent) applications for 40 new voter IDs. Who are these people?”
“Gradually, the public is realising that BJP does not fight elections fairly. It relies solely on dishonesty during elections. Our workers have been vigilant and caught each of its misdeeds,” he added.
Kejriwal also alleged that BJP MPs staying in the New Delhi Assembly constituency were “transferring votes from across India to their residences on a large scale”.
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“This is nothing less serious or shocking than an attempt at largescale booth capturing that India has seen in the past… the BJP is engaging in backdoor tactics to hoodwink the people of Delhi and manipulate electoral rolls secretly,” he claimed.
“BJP… is transferring votes from across the country to the New Delhi Assembly constituency using the addresses of its own MPs and ministers who live in the… constituency. Shockingly, 33 new votes have been submitted for being transferred to BJP’s candidate Parvesh Verma’s official residence.
Are we expected to believe that overnight, 33 people from across India have shifted their residence to that of Mr Verma,” he asked.
Kejriwal annexed documents such as addresses of BJP leaders and premises to which “hundreds of votes were being transferred”, addresses of small homes, shops, and offices as well as “addresses that are nowhere to be found”.
“It appears that several BJP Union ministers and members of the Union Cabinet are involved in this malpractice… It is inconceivable how such a high number of voters could have suddenly applied to be transferred to these properties without planning by the highest levels of BJP leadership,” he alleged.
Kejriwal demanded that these “suspicious vote transfers” be halted immediately and investigation be carried out into alleged involvement of “BJP MPs and ministers whose residences are being misused for this malpractice and register a criminal FIR against those responsible”.
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