A day after the Election Commission dismissed allegations of electoral roll manipulation, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of tasking its seven MPs with creating fake votes in Delhi ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, as reported by the Hindustan Times.
Kejriwal announced in a post on X that Chief Minister Atishi would approach the Chief Election Commissioner to address his allegations.
Arvind Kejriwal, in a post on X, alleged that the “Gaali Galauj Party” had assigned its seven MPs to create fake votes in the New Delhi Legislative Assembly constituency in the coming days. He urged people to monitor the number of new voter applications closely. Kejriwal added that Atishi had requested a meeting with the Chief Election Commissioner, expressing hope for an early response.
“According to sources, the Gaali Galauj Party has given targets to its seven MPs to get fake votes made in the New Delhi Legislative Assembly in the next few days. Let’s see how many applications for making new votes come in the next few days. Everyone should keep an eye on this. Atishi ji has sought time to meet the chief election commissioner. We hope we will get time soon,” Arvind Kejriwal wrote in Hindi on X.
“Indian voters are extremely aware… Stories are going around regarding electoral rolls, even now. Almost 70 steps are there…in which political parties and candidates remain with us. All the claims and objections that come up are shared with all the political parties. No deletion can be done without Form 7,” he said before announcing the schedule for the Delhi assembly election.
He also said EVM rigging is not possible.
“There is no evidence of unreliability or any drawback in the EVMs… There is no question of introducing a virus or bug in the EVM. There is no question of invalid votes in the EVM. No rigging is possible. High Courts and the Supreme Court are continuously saying this in different judgments… What else can be said? EVMs are foolproof devices for counting. Allegations of tempering are baseless. We are speaking now because we don’t speak when elections are on,” he added.
Arvind Kejriwal dismissed the idea of returning to paper ballots as unwarranted and regressive, ANI reported. Earlier, he accused the BJP of attempting to delete voters’ names from electoral rolls in the New Delhi assembly constituency. Kejriwal is set to face BJP’s Parvesh Verma in this constituency. The Delhi assembly elections will occur in a single phase on February 5, with vote counting scheduled for February 8.
