‘AAP Delhi unit on Thursday initiated the voters’ verification drive in the city. In a meeting on Thursday, convener Arvind Kejriwal directed them to verify the voters’ lists through a door-to-door campaign, said the party spokesperson.
‘It has been noticed that other parties are enrolling bogus voters and at the same time are deleting the names of pro-AAP voters from the lists. Therefore, this exercise is being launched across the city. Nearly 11,000 booth incharges and 3,000 polling station incharges will work round the clock.
Apart from this, two volunteers of every booth will do the voters’ verification exercise at the booth level,’ said senior party leader Manish Sisodia.
Ashutosh, the convener of the AAP Delhi unit, said: ‘If the party detects bogus votes in its verification drive, not only will the party take up the issue strongly and get these votes deleted but will also press for action against officials involved in this activity. We would like to warn such officials that they should themselves delete bogus voters, otherwise it could have severe repercussions for them.’
The party has set a target of 30 November for the completion of the exercise for the verification of voters. After this, AAP volunteers will monitor the voters’ list on a daily basis and any additions and deletions will be carefully monitored.
The party has directed all Vidhan Sabha incharges to finalise their teams by 1 December for monitoring the voters’ lists at every polling booth level.
Meanwhile, in an interview to a private news channel, Kejriwal on Thursday said he will focus on Delhi for the next five to 10 years and any decision on fighting elections in other states will be taken only after people’s mandate in the national Capital.
The civil servant-turned politician, who faced severe criticism for quitting as Delhi chief minister in February, said AAP was ‘fully ready’ to take the electoral plunge and identified BJP as its main opponent.
‘We are only concentrating on Delhi. As far as I am concerned, I am going to focus on Delhi for next five to 10 years,’ Kejriwal said.
‘It has been noticed that other parties are enrolling bogus voters and at the same time are deleting the names of pro-AAP voters from the lists. Therefore, this exercise is being launched across the city. Nearly 11,000 booth incharges and 3,000 polling station incharges will work round the clock.
Apart from this, two volunteers of every booth will do the voters’ verification exercise at the booth level,’ said senior party leader Manish Sisodia.
Ashutosh, the convener of the AAP Delhi unit, said: ‘If the party detects bogus votes in its verification drive, not only will the party take up the issue strongly and get these votes deleted but will also press for action against officials involved in this activity. We would like to warn such officials that they should themselves delete bogus voters, otherwise it could have severe repercussions for them.’
The party has set a target of 30 November for the completion of the exercise for the verification of voters. After this, AAP volunteers will monitor the voters’ list on a daily basis and any additions and deletions will be carefully monitored.
The party has directed all Vidhan Sabha incharges to finalise their teams by 1 December for monitoring the voters’ lists at every polling booth level.
Meanwhile, in an interview to a private news channel, Kejriwal on Thursday said he will focus on Delhi for the next five to 10 years and any decision on fighting elections in other states will be taken only after people’s mandate in the national Capital.
The civil servant-turned politician, who faced severe criticism for quitting as Delhi chief minister in February, said AAP was ‘fully ready’ to take the electoral plunge and identified BJP as its main opponent.
‘We are only concentrating on Delhi. As far as I am concerned, I am going to focus on Delhi for next five to 10 years,’ Kejriwal said.