Capital has more than 7 lakh fake voters: Kejriwal
7 Jan 2015 7:05 AM IST
He blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the scam. “I have handed over three CDs to the poll body, which contains details about the anomalies,” said Kejriwal who also met Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer Chandra Bhushan Kumar in this regard.
He demanded action against Booth Level Officers for the discrepancies in the voters’ list
“Upon our checking, we found that some 3,96,914 voters have more than one card against their names, totalling upto 11,50,509 voter cards.
We have compared the father’s/ husband’s names and ages of all the voters in the list. We found that father’s name is same in a number of cases. Then we compared some photos randomly. We discovered that the photos are also matching such cases. We are attaching such cases as examples. Photos have to be compared manually and we don’t have the manpower to compare photos in all cases. Therefore, we would treat these as suspected cases,” Kejriwal said in a letter to Delhi CEO.
In a press conference addressed by him, Kejriwal said his party also compared the voters list of Delhi with neighbouring Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and found several discrepancies in that list as well.
“We found that 14,71,025 voters in Delhi’s list are such that their names, father’s/ husband’s names and ages match with such names in Haryana’s list. We have also discovered 12,53,779 voters in Delhi’s list also existing in voters’ list in Uttar Pradesh. We have also its CD to the election commission,” the AAP chief said, adding that in such a case, free and fair elections would not be possible. “We all know that just before the election, people from the neighbouring states are brought to cast their votes,” he alleged.
He demanded action against Booth Level Officers for the discrepancies in the voters’ list
“Upon our checking, we found that some 3,96,914 voters have more than one card against their names, totalling upto 11,50,509 voter cards.
We have compared the father’s/ husband’s names and ages of all the voters in the list. We found that father’s name is same in a number of cases. Then we compared some photos randomly. We discovered that the photos are also matching such cases. We are attaching such cases as examples. Photos have to be compared manually and we don’t have the manpower to compare photos in all cases. Therefore, we would treat these as suspected cases,” Kejriwal said in a letter to Delhi CEO.
In a press conference addressed by him, Kejriwal said his party also compared the voters list of Delhi with neighbouring Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and found several discrepancies in that list as well.
“We found that 14,71,025 voters in Delhi’s list are such that their names, father’s/ husband’s names and ages match with such names in Haryana’s list. We have also discovered 12,53,779 voters in Delhi’s list also existing in voters’ list in Uttar Pradesh. We have also its CD to the election commission,” the AAP chief said, adding that in such a case, free and fair elections would not be possible. “We all know that just before the election, people from the neighbouring states are brought to cast their votes,” he alleged.
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