Arvind Kejriwal
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Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has made very serious allegations against BJP in a press conference. Kejriwal alleges that BJP is secretly getting votes cut in Delhi. He said that in the last one month in Shahdara Assembly, BJP has given application to reduce 11 thousand 18 votes. This sequence continues. They give applications to reduce 1000-500 votes.
Kejriwal said that BJP has applied to cut votes on its letterhead. In the last 1-1.5 months, he has applied to cancel the votes of 11,000 people and that process is going on. It has been said in the applications that these 11,018 people have either gone somewhere else or have died. We checked 500 at random. Out of these 500, 372 people were living there (at their address). He didn’t go anywhere else. That means 75% of their list is wrong. When we inquired, we found out that most of these voters turned out to be AAP voters. What is the point of holding elections if 6% votes are lost from an assembly constituency? There are around 1 lakh 86 thousand votes, out of which BJP has applied to deduct around 11 thousand votes. Don’t know yet how many applications will come.
The former CM said that the role of the Election Commission is doubtful in this. The list of those who receive applications for removal has to be posted on the Commission’s website. But, there is nothing there. Only 487 applications are visible, in which there are applications to remove voters. Whereas the Election Commission has already taken action on these. The Election Commission is secretly working on BJP’s application. In the 14th Assembly, an application has come from BJP to remove around 6 thousand voters from Janakpuri Assembly. Five thousand applications have been received in Sangam Vihar, around four thousand in RK Puram.