The continuing row over the alleged manipulation of voters’ information escalated on Saturday because the Delhi BJP accused senior Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) leaders and Rajya Sabha MPs Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha of threatening election officers to stop the elimination of alleged pretend voters from the New Delhi Meeting constituency. In a counterattack, the AAP claimed the BJP has been “caught red-handed” whereas tampering with electoral information.
“Arvind Kejriwal is shedding the New Delhi Meeting constituency… and this worry of defeat has left the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) in a state of panic. AAP’s Rajya Sabha MPs Sanjay Singh, and Raghav Chadha have been repeatedly threatening Election Fee officers relating to the New Delhi constituency and (have been) demanding unconstitutional actions,” Delhi BJP Chief Virendra Sachdeva alleged.
Sachdeva claimed that Chadha met with Election Fee officers on December 21, 28, and 29, and later each Chadha and Singh allegedly met them once more on January 3.
He claimed that the AAP leaders pressured officers to retain voters from areas like Dhobi Ghat and Sarojini Nagar whilst slum dwellers from these areas had been relocated years in the past.
“Comparable calls for had been made for Polling Station No. 18, the place slum residents had been shifted to Dwarka. Is it Arvind Kejriwal and his Rajya Sabha MPs who will now dictate how the Election Fee operates?” Sachdeva questioned, additional alleging that booth-level officers (BLOs) had been pressured and threatened by the AAP.
The BJP additionally cited a December 29 grievance filed by BLOs. In keeping with the grievance, throughout an inspection of Servant Quarter No. 66—registered underneath Sanjay Singh’s title—AAP’s polling brokers and BJP’s officers discovered that residents like Mrs. Triveni, Subedar, and Rocky had been not residing there. The BJP alleged that Sanjay Singh supplied the quarters to his home workers and claimed broader voter listing manipulation was at play.
In response, the AAP dismissed the BJP’s allegations, accusing the social gathering of trying to govern voter rolls. “The BJP has been caught red-handed trying to govern voter lists, and there may be simple proof because the Election Fee has already ordered an FIR. Two people who had submitted functions to delete the vote of AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh’s spouse, Anita Singh, had been backed by BJP leaders, together with Amit Malviya,” AAP claimed in an announcement.
The AAP additionally accused BJP chief Vishal Bhardwaj of submitting 11,018 functions to delete votes in Shahdara, which had been stopped after AAP raised the problem. “Equally, after the abstract revision course of had closed, the BJP filed functions to delete 5,000 names and add 7,500 names within the New Delhi Meeting constituency,” the AAP mentioned.
Calling it a “focused assault,” AAP alleged that the BJP was making an attempt to delete real voters from the rolls. “We won’t let this occur. Police complaints have been filed, and we’ve submitted all proof and grievances to the Election Fee for additional motion,” the social gathering said.
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