Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday wrote to the Election Commission and the party alleged there have been irregularities in voter card distribution. "The EC must ensure that all these missing voter ID cards along with all the other cards yet to distributed are properly and fairly delivered to rightful recipients at their registered addresses," said Raghav Chadha, AAP South Delhi candidate.
Chadha on Sunday tweeted a photograph of voter identification cards and said that more than 200 of them were allegedly recovered from the roadside in south Delhi's Badarpur area. "The EC must crack down on this dangerous conspiracy by the BJP immediately within the next few hours by identifying the Election Commission Officers who are acting as BJP agents and have donned Khaki knickers under their uniforms and to identify BJP leaders who are conspiring to snatch away people's democratic right to franchise," said Chadha.
He also said that the party has also received news from Deoli and Chattarpur that Booth Level Officers and postal workers have left the voter ID cards in the offices of local BJP leaders and BJP leaders are calling people and inviting them over and claiming that they have got their voter ID cards prepared. "Is the BJP the distribution agency of the Election Commission? BJP leaders don't want to let potential AAP voters vote, or they want to intimidate them to vote for the BJP. This is a concentrated effort to influence the elections and instead ensure biased and unfair elections," the AAP leader said.
Chadha alleged that the EC remained a mute spectator as BJP engineered a massive voter deletion fraud in Delhi. "Now when CM Arvind Kejriwal ensured that votes of those people whose names had been illegally deleted were restored; the BJP is colluding with Booth Level Officers and preventing these voter ID cards from reaching the voters by abandoning them, burying them or destroying them. Today we present these voter ID cards in front you," said Chadha.
He also clarified that even though the abandoned Voter ID cards are in AAP's possession at the moment, the is no authorised to distribute the same and thus the AAP will submit these with the EC. Describing the situation the AAP leader said, "The shocking discovery of more than 200 voter ID cards yesterday, found lying in garbage dump only a few hundred metres away from Badarpur MLA's office has exposed the nexus between the BJP, the Booth Level Officers and officers of Postal Department as they work in tandem to ensure that voter IDs of those registered though AAP registration camps are not received by them."
