NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday levelled serious accusations against BJP’s top leadership and Union ministers, alleging their involvement in voter registration malpractices in Delhi ahead of assembly elections.
During a press conference, AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said that top leaders of BJP are deceiving and undermining the Election Commission by applying to register fake votes from different addresses in the capital.
“Union ministers, BJP MPs and leaders are playing with the reputation of the Election Commission by throwing dust in its eyes, they are committing electoral scams and frauds. The BJP candidate from New Delhi, Pravesh Verma is a former MP, not a sitting MP, yet he has been occupying the MP’s bungalow for 8 months from May to January,” Singh said.
“Not only this, he has given an application to get 33 votes made at the address of his bungalow. The second name is Union minister of State for Finance, Pankaj Chaudhary, he has given an application to get 26 votes made at his address. Union minister Kamlesh Paswan has given an application for getting 26 votes made at his address,” he added.
AAP’s allegations came a day after BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said that the AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal was trying to get large numbers of votes registered from the addresses of party workers in certain constituencies.
“These votes are of people who do not stay in Delhi and will suddenly show up to cast their vote on the election day,” he alleged.
Sachdeva said he requested an appointment with the Election Commission and would soon file a complaint.
The issue of voter addition and deletion has become a major point in the upcoming assembly polls, with AAP accusing BJP of getting votes deleted in its strongholds while BJP alleging that AAP was helping illegal Rohingya and Bangladeshis in Delhi become voters.
Delhi is all set to go for the polls on February 5 and the counting of votes will take place on February 8.
