The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Karnataka on Sunday issued a discover to Lok Sabha Chief of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi asking him to offer paperwork to help the allegations of “vote chori” he had made in New Delhi earlier.
The discover was associated to one in all Gandhi’s allegations of electoral malpractice within the Mahadevapura Meeting phase of the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency. It referred to the Congress chief’s remarks that one Shakun Rani had voted twice through the Lok Sabha polls held final 12 months.
“You might have additionally acknowledged that as per the information given by the polling officer, Smt. Shakun Rani has voted twice. You might have stated; “Es ID card per do baar vote lagahai, wo jo tick hai, polling sales space ke officer ki hai”. On inquiry, Smt. Shakun Rani has acknowledged that she has voted solely as soon as and never twice, as alleged by you,” the discover learn.
Issued by V Anbukumar, the CEO of Karnataka, it stated the “preliminary enquiry carried out by this workplace additionally reveals that the tick marked doc proven by you within the presentation will not be a doc issued by the polling officer. Due to this fact, you’re kindly requested to offer the related paperwork on the idea of which you could have concluded that Smt. Shakun Rani or anybody else has voted twice, so {that a} detailed inquiry may be undertaken by this workplace.”
At a current information convention, Gandhi alleged that 1,00,250 “pretend votes” had been created within the Mahadevapura Meeting phase so as to guarantee a win for the BJP. He listed 5 strategies by which pretend voters had been created to offer the saffron social gathering an edge. They included duplicate votes, pretend and invalid addresses of voters, bulk voters in a single tackle, invalid images, and misuse of Kind 6. In a protest held at Bengaluru on August 8, he had additionally urged the Karnataka Authorities to inquire into the irregularities that allegedly befell through the 2024 polls.
Shortly after Gandhi made the allegations, the CEO had requested him to submit his grievance concerning voter roll manipulation “below oath”.
Following a Congress protest on Friday, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president and Deputy Chief Minister D Ok Shivakumar submitted a memorandum to the CEO concerning the irregularities. On Saturday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah stated the regulation division would examine the allegations and submit a report quickly.
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Responding to growth, former Mahadevapura MLA Aravind Limbavali stated that Shakun Rani was from Panipat and was dwelling at Purva Residences. “She tries so as to add her identify to the voters listing with type 5. She will get no response for 2 months after which she applies once more and when she checks the voter listing subsequently, she finds her identify twice in the identical sales space,” the BJP chief stated in an announcement.
Limbavali accused Gandhi of misguiding the individuals by alleging that Rani had voted twice.
“After I checked the roll with my BLA – since we hold these information – we discovered that an individual with the identify Shakun Rani had voted solely as soon as. We requested her and he or she advised us she had voted solely below serial quantity 1228 within the voter listing for sales space quantity 341,” he stated.