Delhi CM alleges giant scale manipulation of electoral roll in New Delhi Meeting constituency

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi together with the Rajya Sabha Members Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha addressing a press convention at AAP HQ in New Delhi on at present January 6, 2025
| Picture Credit score: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Monday (January 6, 2025) alleged that there’s giant scale rip-off occurring to govern the electoral roll of the New Delhi Meeting constituency and sought a right away inquiry into the matter.

Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal is the present MLA from the New Delhi Meeting constituency and the Delhi Meeting election is due in February.

Addressing a press convention, Ms. Atishi mentioned, “Yesterday, I wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner, with all these particulars, on how the big scale voter rip-off is occurring within the New Delhi Meeting constituency. Now we have additionally requested for time to fulfill the Chief Election Commissioner. There must be a right away inquiry into the big scale voter rip-off occurring within the New Delhi Meeting constituency.”

Ms. Atishi mentioned {that a} abstract revision of the electoral roll was performed by the Election Fee and after that, there have been a lot of functions so as to add and delete voters within the New Delhi Meeting constituency.

“There’s a conspiracy to govern the election (within the New Delhi Meeting constituency) by including about 10% new voters and deleting 5.77% voters,” she mentioned.

“Out of the 6,167 functions for voter deletion, 4,283 functions to delete votes had been filed by merely 84 folks. The expose of this rip-off is that, when these 84 folks had been referred to as for listening to by the election fee after sending notices, all of those objectors got here for the listening to and mentioned that ‘we didn’t file any functions’,” she mentioned.

She alleged that pretend functions are being filed to (delete names from the voter record) and there’s a conspiracy to govern the electoral roll and the position of election fee officers can also be suspicious.