Arvind Kejriwal moves Election Commissioner

Arvind Kejriwal moves Election Commissioner

New Delhi: Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday alleged that names of lakhs of voters had been axed from electoral rolls in Delhi and blamed the BJP for it. In a letter to Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat, Kejriwal said that most people whose names have been deleted exist and the deletion had been done “with mala fide intent”. “The procedure prescribed under law for deletion of names has not been followed in almost all cases, which raises suspicion about the motives,” Kejriwal said.

Kejriwal approached the poll panel after the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) South Delhi Lok Sabha in-charge Raghav Chadha claimed that about 100,000 voters’ named have been dropped from the South Delhi parliamentary constituency alone at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In his letter, Kejriwal said that he ordered an enquiry in nine such cases and found that the names were deleted following a door-to-door survey conducted by booth level officers (BLO) in July. Calling the whole exercise a “huge scam” with grave implications on democracy, Kejriwal urged the Election Commission to take “exemplary penal action” against the officers involved. He also requested the Election Commission to provide a list of deleted names to all political parties in the soft and hard copy so that the voters could be approached immediately. (IANS)

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