Following a scrutiny after the exposure of bogus voters in the Capital, the Electoral Office of Delhi deleted 12.91 lakh dubious names from the electorate list on Thursday.
They belonged to constituencies like Karawal Nagar, Uttam Nagar, Okhla, RK Puram, Badarpur, Ballimaran, Madipur, Kondli, Vikaspuri, Greater Kailash, Kasturba Nagar, Tri Nagar, Malviya Nagar, Shakur Basti, Badli, Rohini, Krishna Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, Sadar Bazar, Ambedkar Nagar, Tughlakabad, Patel Nagar, Bijwasan, Palam, laxmi Nagar, Shahdara and Trilokpuri.
The Electoral Office of Delhi had called political parties -- Congress and BJP on Thursday to provide details regarding dubious voters. After the deletion, number of electorates has been reduced from 1.23 crore to 1.12 crore in Delhi. On an average, 20,000 voters were deleted per Assembly seat. According to sources, Karawal Nagar has highest number of bogus voters. Total 43,716 voters found non-existence in Karawal Nagar, while 37,000 from Uttam Nagar. Karawal Nagar seat is represented by BJP MlA Mohan Singh Bisht, while Uttam Nagar by Congress MlA Mukesh Sharma.
The New Delhi seat, represented by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had 32,024 such voters. Similarly, Okhla constituency had 36,260 bogus voters, RK Puram had 31,000; Kondli 26,151; Greater Kailash 28,644; Kasturba Nagar 25,000; Vikaspuri 23,400; Nangloi Jat 22,000; Krishna Nagar 19,000; Gandhi Nagar 17,000; Sadar Bazar 24,340; Ballimaran 25,000 and Dwarka had 25,000 such voters which have been deleted.
Sources said that in North-West Parliamentary constituency, a total of 1,50,266 dubious voters were deleted, while 1,71,324 from North-East, 1,83,568 from South, 1,45,703 from Central, 1,46,898 from South-West, 1,64,102 from East. 1,67 970 from West and 1,86,607 from New Delhi.