n Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav on Friday appealed to the chief electoral officer (CEO) to issue written instructions to police to maintain discipline on polling day, ensuring that party workers are not harassed.
Meanwhile, Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva claimed, “We have concrete information that Kejriwal is deliberately arranging for large numbers of votes to be registered in the homes of his party workers in certain constituencies. These votes are of people who do not reside in Delhi and will suddenly show up to cast their vote on election day.”
He also said that in this regard, they have requested an appointment with the Election Commission and will file a complaint as soon as they are granted time.
Yadav, along with other leaders, met the Delhi CEO and submitted a letter. In the letter, Yadav highlighted the Election Commission of India's announcement of the schedule for Delhi Assembly elections and expressed the party's concerns regarding election management.
"One of the important issues, which arises for concern on the voting day is about the non-issuance of clear-cut guidelines/directions to the local police regarding the number of tables and putting up of party flags, symbols and other material used by the workers of different political parties outside the polling stations.
"It had been experienced that the Congress workers are mostly harassed by police in disguise of the Model Code of Conduct, which is against the electoral practices and healthy democratic process," he wrote in the letter.
It had also been witnessed in the last elections that there were many assembly constituencies, wherein the voting percentage was higher than other constituencies, it said. It was also seen that due to a heavy turnout in many constituencies, there were long queues due to "poor management" at several booths, unnecessary delays and interruption in voting for hours, which resulted in the harassment not only for voters but also for the election machinery, including political party workers, till late night, Yadav mentioned.
It is further requested that no deletion or addition in the voters list should be carried out without proper verification, the letter said.
