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Claiming that “16 lakh” extra voters than the full grownup inhabitants had been enrolled in Maharashtra, Congress on Wednesday continued to query the electoral roll for the not too long ago held state Meeting elections.
AICC Knowledge Analytics Division Chairperson Praveen Chakravarty stated that in a press convention on Tuesday, the Chief Election Commissioner had “outlined the method of voter addition in particulars and claimed that the method is supplied to stop faux voter additions.”
Citing the report by the Nationwide Fee on Inhabitants, Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare, Chakravarty stated that “Maharashtra’s estimated grownup (18+) inhabitants in 2024 may be calculated as 9.54 crore, based mostly on the five-year projections.”
“As per the Election Fee, the full enrolled electors in Maharashtra for the Vidhan Sabha election had been 9.70 crores. That’s, the Election Fee appears to have enrolled 16 lakh extra electors than the whole grownup inhabitants in Maharashtra, as estimated by the Narendra Modi authorities,” stated Chakravarty.
“Even when estimates differ, is it doable that the EC has registered 100% or greater than all of the eligible voters in a state? Our evaluation of different states exhibits that on common, solely 90% of the eligible inhabitants is enrolled as electors by EC. How is it that for Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha alone, the EC enrolled 100% or extra? Additional, Aadhaar enrolment knowledge in Maharashtra additionally reinforces the truth that the EC’s complete voter enrolment in Maharashtra could also be greater than the full grownup inhabitants,” he added.
Chakravarty stated that whereas “all the opposite questions that we raised in our earlier letter dated December 10, 2024, about mysterious addition of latest voters stay unanswered, simply this one easy datapoint that the EC could have registered extra electors than grownup inhabitants quashes the CEC’s declare that the method of voter addition and deletion may be very sturdy and unquestionable.”
“It’s within the curiosity of the nation’s democracy and strengthening voters belief that the EC, fairly than grandstanding and hiding behind flowery poetry, ought to acknowledge the uncomfortable reality and take remedial steps as a dutiful public servant,” he stated.
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