AAP, BJP accuse each other of manipulating electoral rolls ahead of Delhi elections
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of attempting to remove his wife’s name from the voter list.
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The Aam Aadmi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday accused each other of manipulating the Delhi electoral roll ahead of Assembly elections in the capital, reported The Hindu.
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal said the BJP was trying to secure an unfair advantage in the upcoming polls, which are expected by February.
“Today, I want to present some data from my New Delhi assembly constituency,” Kejriwal said at a press conference. “BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’ began in this constituency on December 15. In just 15 days, they submitted nearly 5,000 applications for vote deletions and 7,500 applications for new additions.”
Operation Lotus is a term used to refer to the BJP’s alleged attempts to target or orchestrate defections in Opposition parties.
The former chief minister said that after verifying 500 out of the BJP’s 5,000 deletion applications, it was found that 408 of the voters had lived at their addresses for at least 20 years. He argued that deleting legitimate voters’ names effectively strips them of citizenship.
Kejriwal also claimed that 47 votes had been added in one house and 22 in another, but both houses were found to be non-existent, suggesting a clear case of fraud.
He alleged that the BJP attempted to delete 5% of voters and add 7.5% new voters in the...
