The Congress on Monday accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan of conspiring to fraudulently remove voters who support the Opposition from the electoral rolls using allegedly forged forms during the special intensive revision in the state.
Addressing a press conference, Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Tikaram Jully and Congress’ state chief Govind Singh Dotasra demanded a forensic investigation into the forms that had been used to seek the deletion of voters’ names.
Dotasra said that the draft voter rolls published on December 16 in Rajasthan showed that about 45 lakh persons had been found to be absent, shifted or deceased.
The persons who had been removed from the voter list could file their claims and objections till January 15 and the deadline was on Thursday extended by the Election Commission to January 19.
“Until January 3, there was no chaos, and the entire system was running smoothly,” he alleged. “However, on January 3, BJP’s National General Secretary (Organisation) BL Santosh visited Rajasthan, held a meeting there, and then the process of fraudulently adding and removing votes began.”
The BJP has not commented on the allegations. But BJP leader and state minister Gautam Dak said on Monday that if a voters’ name is proposed to be removed, the person gets time to be...
