Taking up the issue of bogus voters in the national Capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday met the Election Commission saying that “a correct voter list is the pre-requisite for conducting free and fair elections”. Further, party convener Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the BJP was using these bogus voters to win the election.
The party on Tuesday also approached the Election Commission, seeking removal of anomalies in the voters list of Delhi. Kejriwal, who met the Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath and also Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer Chandra Bhushan Kumar, said he has handed over the poll body three CDs, which contain details about the anomalies. He also demanded action against booth-level officers for the discrepancies in the voters list.
“We checked and found that some 3,96,914 voters have more than one card against their names totalling up to 11,50,509 voter cards. We are attaching such cases as examples, said Kejriwal in a letter to the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer.
“We have compared the name, father or husband’s name and age. These 3 fields match in all cases. Then we compared some photos randomly. We discovered that the photos are also matching in a number of cases.
Photos have to be compared manually and we did not have the manpower to compare photos in all these cases. Therefore, we would treat these as suspected cases,” Kejriwal further said that 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 14,71,025 voters in Delhi’s list, whose name, father or husband’s name and age match with the names in Haryana’s list. In case of Uttar Pradesh, we found 12,53,779 voters in Delhi’s list. We have also given the CD to the Election Commission and said free and fair elections would not be possible in such a case. We all know that just before the election, people from the neighbouring states are brought to cast their votes,” he explained.