A delegation of the BJP comprising Andhra State President Kanna Lakshmi Narayana and the party’s national spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao met the Election Commission of India on Friday, 8 March, and submitted a complaint, asking them to take action regarding the voter deletion controversy in the state.
The Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP party has been accused of collecting voter data and using it to profile voters through the party’s official app.
The YSRCP has been accused of trying to delete pro-TDP voters from the voter list by mass filing Form-7s online.
The TDP has denied the allegations, while YSRCP has claimed they have filed Form-7s to delete “bogus voters” added to the list by the TDP in the first place.
“We are submitting widespread concerns of voters and political parties in Andhra Pradesh and seek your earnest response to allay our and people’s concerns,” the complaint reportedly said, according to UNI.
Addressing the media, GVL Narasimha Rao, lashing out at the TDP, said that this was “nothing but an attempt to subvert the entire electoral process”.
He further alleged that the Andhra police was functioning as an extension of the ruling TDP.
He then laid out four demands that they submitted to the EC on which they want action – a special revision of rolls in the state to “remove all the inaccuracies and nullify all the fraudulent efforts of the Telugu Desam Party”; asked the EC to send the state police out and put people the EC trusts; discontinue the services of Sadhikara Mitras; and take appropriate action in regard to the data theft.
(This piece was first published on The News Minute and has been republished in an arrangement.)
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