Ahmedabad : The Gujarat unit of the Congress party on Saturday accused the ruling BJP of orchestrating a large-scale “vote chori” (vote theft) in the state, alleging that thousands of fake and duplicate entries have been found in the electoral rolls. State Congress president Amit Chavda said the party’s scrutiny of voter lists has revealed that “one person, multiple votes” is becoming a recurring pattern in Gujarat.
A detailed examination of the Choriyasi Assembly segment in Navsari showed serious discrepancies. Out of 6,09,592 registered voters, Congress said it checked about 40 per cent of the entries and found nearly 30,000 to be duplicate, fake or suspicious. If one constituency shows such a scale of fraud, imagine how democracy is being undermined across the state. Questions are now being raised about CR Patil’s record victories in the past elections, Chavda said.
In other cases, Chavda said, individuals were found with more than one voter ID, or the same electorate was listed in different languages to obscure their identity. The Congress leader also alleged that changes of address were being used to create inflated voter rolls. This is not just an error in records, it is a conspiracy to finish democracy, Chavda said.
Chavda’s big allegations came at a time when Rahul Gandhi is camping in poll-bound Bihar for his ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ along with other INDIA bloc allies, incuding the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Rahul Gandhi launched the Congress’ ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ from Sasaram in Rohtas district on August 17 to protest against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. The yatra, supported by all INDIA bloc constituents, will culminate in Patna on September 1.
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