Karnataka Congress leaders on Wednesday reached the Karnataka State Election fee (SEC) workplace and lodged a criticism in opposition to the alleged electoral fraud in Bengaluru’s Rajarajeshwari Nagar meeting constituency.
Congress Bangalore Rural MP DK Suresh together with different leaders arrived on the SEC Workplace in KR Circle space in Bengaluru and submitted a memorandum to the Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Meena demanding motion into the matter.
Congress leaders stated that the Rajarajeshwari Nagar meeting constituency is on the forefront of the whole controversy.
Congress leaders knowledgeable that the constituency is split into 9 wards and has 397 polling cubicles with over 4,54,000 registered voters.
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“We went by the electoral information of the present yr and in contrast it with the 2018 checklist, and came upon that an extra 91,000 voters had been added to Rajarajeshwari Nagar constituency electoral checklist,” DK Suresh alleged.
He additionally stated that voters’ names had been added to present homes, and alleged it “to be a mirrored image of the malpractice perpetuated by the personal company ‘Chilume'”.
“Data of round 46000 voters have been deleted if in contrast with the checklist of 2018 and January 2022,” he stated.
Congress leaders additionally claimed that polling stations had been shifted intentionally to deprive voters of sure areas from casting their votes. “Polling station for voters at RNS Belief Engineering School was shifted to KLE Society, Nagarabhavi which is almost round 11km away from the earlier location. This clearly explains how an eligible voter with none clarification or fault was pressured to go to a far-off place from his registered deal with to solid his vote,” he stated.
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Congress chief alleged that there had been huge misuse of the state equipment to favour the BJP and the sitting MLAs and ministers.
“The Election Fee should provoke motion in opposition to all concerned within the rip-off and the true voters’ checklist should be revived,” they stated.
Congress had final month launched an assault in opposition to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai alleging that he was immediately concerned in alleged electoral fraud in Bengaluru.
“Surprising expose reveals that these in citadels of energy, together with Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai, are accountable for theft of voters’ knowledge, fraud and impersonation,” Congress normal secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala had stated whereas addressing a press convention in Bengaluru.
Surjewala had demanded a high-level probe within the matter and claimed a personal company named “Chilume” was authorised by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) – the city native physique of Bengaluru, to hold out a door-to-door survey of voters within the metropolis.