Malhotra welcomes extension of SIR timeline, urges Delhiites not to fall for AAP’s misinformation

Delhi BJP president Harsh Malhotra welcomed the Election Commission’s decision to extend the deadline for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in the national capital, stating that the extended timeline would enable Booth Level Officers (BLOs) to carry out their work with complete transparency.

Malhotra highlighted that the SIR has two primary objectives, first, to ensure that no foreign national is registered as an Indian voter, and secondly, to ensure that every Indian citizen is registered as a voter at only one place.

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He appealed to the people of Delhi not to fall prey to misinformation allegedly being spread by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress leaders around the exercise and said no one can delete the vote of any Delhi resident registered only in Delhi, and the BJP will not allow such an action.

The Delhi BJP president lamented that AAP leaders continue to incite the Purvanchal community living in Delhi and economically weaker sections residing in slum clusters against the BJP.

He said that in doing so, the AAP leaders forget that people from eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, and several other states who are settled in the national capital have consistently elected BJP governments in their home states.
He asserted that AAP’s alleged misinformation campaign will have no adverse impact on the community from the eastern region.

Sharpening his attack on AAP, Malhotra said that although AAP leaders have raised the SIR issue in the name of the Purvanchal community, but the real objective is to protect their Bangladeshi and Rohingya voters, he alleged.