The Office of Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi has also started preparations for conducting the SIR in the national capital.
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Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva has welcomed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) program by the Election Commission, which is aimed at protecting the integrity of the electoral rolls.
The Office of Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi has also started preparations for conducting the SIR in the national capital.
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Sachdeva said that it is unfortunate that whether it is Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, or Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, both are opposing the SIR by the poll panel.
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The Delhi BJP chief stated that the party has always worked to ensure the accuracy of the voter list in Delhi, and over the past 20 years, it has made all efforts to correct the voter list.
In the recently concluded Assembly elections, the state unit chief of the BJP claimed as to how they brought to light that in some cases, 60 to 100 votes were registered at a single address.
He alleged that even fake house numbers were placed on footpaths to create votes from a certain community.
According to Sachdeva, after 2014, during the 2015 Assembly elections, there was a sudden increase of 1.3 million (13 lakh) voters, and again, after 2019, the 2020 Assembly elections witnessed an increase of more than 800,000 (8 lakh) voters.
A detailed investigation revealed that these included infiltrators and individuals who were not even citizens of Delhi.
Sachdeva said that the party had launched a campaign to address this and informed the Election Commission, and had also submitted a complaint of about 10,000 pages, based on findings by party workers at the booth level.
He emphasized that for the past two decades, AAP and Congress have repeatedly made enticing promises to get people fraudulently registered and create fake votes.
Sachdeva said that now the Election Commission has launched a countrywide SIR program, and the party welcomes this initiative.
In Delhi, this process will take into account the 2002 voter list. People whose names were in the 2002 list will only need to fill an enumeration form.
Those not listed must provide a copy of their parents’ names from the 2002 list as supporting documentation.
He added that party workers will assist all voters in Delhi throughout this process, and BJP will continue every possible effort to ensure that the voter list belongs solely to the legitimate voters of the national capital, with no fake or infiltrator names.
Sachdeva stressed that fake or fraudulent votes are a stain on democracy – something both Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Constitution and democracy itself do not accept.
“Our workers and we will make every effort to support the ECI during this Special Intensive Revision process so that every voter in Delhi gets their rightful representation,” he added.
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