Forward of Congress’s protest scheduled on August 5 in Bengaluru over alleged voter fraud throughout 2024 Lok Sabha elections, former minister H Nagesh had written to the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka, in search of a duplicate of a criticism he claimed he had submitted in April 2023 alleging cast entries in voters’ record. The CEO’s workplace, nonetheless, denied receiving any such criticism.
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Nagesh contested the 2023 polls from Mahadevapura constituency in Bengaluru and misplaced by a margin of 44,000 votes to BJP’s S Manjula.
On July 31 this 12 months, in a letter to the state election fee, he stated, “I, H Nagesh, want to deliver to your sort consideration that we had earlier throughout April 2023, submitted an inventory containing particulars of alleged cast entries within the voters record pertaining to our constituency 174 Mahadevapura. This difficulty is of grave concern because it impacts the transparency and equity of the electoral course of. Nonetheless, we now have misplaced the record of paperwork — we do not need a duplicate of the submitted paperwork for our data. We kindly request you to share a duplicate of the doc which we had submitted.”
The letter was shared on the official X deal with of the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka, and the reply connected.
Yogeshwar S, Joint Chief Electoral Officer, in a letter dated August 2, stated that “this workplace doesn’t have data of any such letter acquired from you throughout April 2023 on the difficulty of electoral rolls with an inventory containing particulars of alleged cast entries within the voter record pertaining to 174-Mahadevapura Meeting constituency, which you may have instantly raised now.”
“This workplace has a statutory copy of the electoral roll which can be accessible on-line and is all the time handed over to the candidates throughout the elections, together with you whilst you had been a contesting candidate,” the letter stated.
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“Since then, you haven’t filed any petition with respect to 174-Mahadevapura Meeting Constituency as per Part 80 of the Illustration of the Individuals Act, 1951 nor any attraction to both the primary appellate authority or second appellate authority towards entries within the electoral rolls printed in 2023 as per Part 24 of the Illustration of the Individuals Act, 1950,” it stated.