Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday targeted Election Commission over the deletion all but one names of voters at Bela Estate, a slum cluster near Yamuna river in Delhi.
However, days before the allegation, the Election Commission had clarified why the deletion of names happened.
Delhi election officials held a review after reports said 728 out of 729 names were excluded from the voter list at Part No, according to a PTI report from earlier this month. 38, JJ Bela Estate-Vijay Ghat, in the Chandni Chowk Assembly constituency published on August 21, following Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The cluster had 729 registered voters before the SIR of electoral rolls began. Only one voter’s name remained on the draft roll, resulting in a deletion rate of nearly 99.8% at the polling booth. 33 following the reports. CEC Gyanesh Kumar himself has said that ‘House Number 0’ is for the homeless. Yet, 727 people’s names have been struck off.
Officials examined the electoral roll for the earlier polling station No, according to a statement issued by the office of the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO). The review found that the addresses of most electors were listed simply as “Agriculture”, while house numbers were recorded for only a few voters. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday targeted the Election Commission over the deletion of voter names at Bela Estate in the national capital, alleging it was a “method of vote theft”. On the phone with the SDM, I said exactly this – having a house or not has no connection to the right to vote. This isn’t SIR – this is a method of vote theft,” he said.
“Today I went to their jhuggi and heard directly from them what the Election Commission has done to them.
