BJP claims bogus voters in final list, say ECI misled by state due to BRS pressure
1 year, 3 months ago

BJP claims bogus voters in final list, say ECI misled by state due to BRS pressure

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Senior BJP leader Marri Shashidhar Reddy on Thursday lodged a complaint with Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, alleging bogus votes in the recently released final voters’ list. Reddy, who is the Telangana BJP’s election commission affairs committee chairman, asked Kumar to direct the state election officials to look into it and delete bogus voters. In an email, the BJP leader said the CEC assured that all discrepancies would be taken care of even after the final roll was published. I requested the Election Commission to take serious note of the functioning of the CEO and the entire machinery, take immediate remedial actions to overhaul the system by inducting officials from outside the state, who can act independently, so that a proper electoral roll can be ensured,” Reddy said.

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Election Commission breaks silence on voter deletion controversy – Here’s what CEC Rajiv Kumar said
1 week, 2 days ago

Election Commission breaks silence on voter deletion controversy – Here’s what CEC Rajiv Kumar said

Live Mint  

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday broke silence on claims of voter name deletions from various constituencies and listed the steps taken when an electoral roll is being made. While addressing a press conference to announce the schedule of the Delhi Assembly elections, Rajiv Kumar said that certain kinds of concerns were raised while noting that it has been …

Amid tussle between AAP and BJP, several Delhi residents express surprise on being named in requests for voter deletion
1 month ago

Amid tussle between AAP and BJP, several Delhi residents express surprise on being named in requests for voter deletion

The Hindu  

Bhuwani Bai was born in a slum cluster in east Delhi’s Jhilmil Colony and has lived there with her family her entire life. So, when an Election Commission of India’s Booth Level Officer knocked on her door last week, informing her that her name and her daughter’s name were on a list of voters that are to be removed from …

UP bypolls: BJP alleges SP’s role in bogus voting
1 month, 3 weeks ago

UP bypolls: BJP alleges SP’s role in bogus voting

Hindustan Times  

As voting in the bypolls for nine assembly seats across Uttar Pradesh unfolded on Monday, state BJP president Bhupendra Chaudhary launched a blistering attack on the Samajwadi Party, accusing it of attempting to disrupt the democratic process through a “culture of anarchy, goons, and mafia.” Chaudhary pointed to reports of bogus voting, accusing women in burqas of casting fake votes …

BRS Moves EC Against Telangana CM Revanth Reddy And BJP Over 'Model Code Violation'
9 months ago

BRS Moves EC Against Telangana CM Revanth Reddy And BJP Over 'Model Code Violation'

ABP News  

The BRS in Telangana on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission accusing Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and the state BJP of purportedly violating the Model Code of Conduct, currently enforced for the Lok Sabha elections. Additionally, BRS demanded the immediate suspension of the BJP's 'X' page from campaigning activities and the prosecution of individuals responsible for …

Naidu, Pawan complain to ECI over illegal' removal of names from voters list
1 year ago

Naidu, Pawan complain to ECI over illegal' removal of names from voters list

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Telugu Desam chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan met Election Commission officials in Vijayawada on Tuesday and complained about removal of names of TD and JS supporters from the voters list in AP. Maintaining that several irregularities were found in the electoral rolls, Naidu and Pawan said the “people have already started revolting” against the …

KTR ridicules BJP, Congress poll plans
1 year, 3 months ago

KTR ridicules BJP, Congress poll plans

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: BRS working president and minister K.T. “Don’t these two leaders feel ashamed to resort to blatant lies,” Rama Rao said, condemning the BJP top leaders’ allegation that Telangana had witnessed the highest number of farmer suicides. Taking objection to the top BJP leaders describing Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao as ‘Razakar CM’, Rama Rao asked how their conscience permit …

BJP demands data of persons with disabilities
1 year, 3 months ago

BJP demands data of persons with disabilities

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Seeking a separate data of persons with disabilities, Telangana BJP Election Commission affairs committee chairman Marri Shashidhar Reddy on Friday filed a petition with the Chief Electoral Officer Vikas Raj seeking action on bogus voters. In his complaint, Reddy said that voters having one among the 21 disabilities as mentioned by the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 …

TD complains to CEO against bogus votes
1 year, 3 months ago

TD complains to CEO against bogus votes

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Telugu Desam AP unit president Kinjerapu Atchannaidu, accompanied by other TD leaders, lodged a complaint on Thursday with Chief Electoral Officer at the state secretariat here. In the complaint, Telugu Desam alleged that YSR Congress is resorting to various irregularities, including registration of bogus votes, in an attempt to win the upcoming assembly elections. The TD state president said …

Congress to Move High Court Against Final Voters List
1 year, 3 months ago

Congress to Move High Court Against Final Voters List

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Congress expressed anger over the Election Commission releasing the final voters list on Wednesday without addressing the objections raised by it on discrepancies in draft electoral rolls. In a media statement, G.Niranjan, chairman, TPCC election commission coordination committee, said the party will conduct a survey on the final voters list to find out the discrepancies and move the …

Thorough verification of voters lists ordered following BJP complaints
1 year, 4 months ago

Thorough verification of voters lists ordered following BJP complaints

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Giving further credence to complaints about lackadaisical preparation of voters lists, Chief Election Officer Vikas Raj, on Friday issued instructions to district electoral officers to follow up on 14 complaints filed by BJP leaders and treat the issue as “most important and urgent.” In his letter to the DEOs on Saturday, Vikas Raj listed 13 complaints received by his …

TS electoral rolls have issues: Vikas
1 year, 4 months ago

TS electoral rolls have issues: Vikas

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Electoral rolls in Telangana have problems, and some of these went unrectified over three revisions of the rolls, Telangana Chief Electoral Officer Vikas Raj has acknowledged. If the submission of Vikas Raj to the Chief Election Commissioner’s office in New Delhi earlier this month is anything to go by, in at least one gated community, around 4,000 voters were …

BJP urges CEC to ensure error free TS voters lists
1 year, 4 months ago

BJP urges CEC to ensure error free TS voters lists

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana state BJP has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to instruct the Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana state to pay attention to its previous complaints over irregularities in voters rolls in the state and take corrective steps and ensure that when final electoral rolls are published, there are no bogus voters, and eligibile voters are allotted polling booths …

YSRC lodges complaint over bogus, duplicate and fake votes
1 year, 4 months ago

YSRC lodges complaint over bogus, duplicate and fake votes

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Former ministers and MLAs, Perni Venkataramaiah and Vellampalli Srinivas as also MLAs Malladi Vishnu and Kayle Anil and MLC Monditoka Arun have complained to the state Chief Election Officer Mukesh Meena about irregularities in the voters list. Perni said vernacular media heads Ramoji Rao and Radha Krishna and Telugu Desam leaders have been making baseless accusations against the YSRC …

Telangana's CEO Initiates Inquiry Into Alleged Discrepancies In Voters' List
1 year, 4 months ago

Telangana's CEO Initiates Inquiry Into Alleged Discrepancies In Voters' List

ABP News  

Telangana’s Chief Electoral Officer, Vikas Raj, on Sunday directed district election officers to verify the complaints received about alleged discrepancies in the voters' list in four assembly constituencies in Greater Hyderabad, IANS reported. The CEO held a thorough review meeting with the District Election Officers, Electoral Registration Officers, Assistant Electoral Registration Officers, and enquiry officers in relation to complaints received …

BJP panel to probe voter list irreguarities
1 year, 4 months ago

BJP panel to probe voter list irreguarities

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: BJP's Election Commission Affairs Committee chairman Marri Shashidhar Reddy will be monitoring irregularities in the voter lists and administration failures in the state. Union minister and the party’s state unit chief G. Kishan Reddy apart from appointing Shashidhar Reddy to the post, also named K. Dileep Kumar as convener, while Sarala Kethineni, Dr Premraj Yadav, K. Anthony Reddy, Dr …

Congress Team Meets Election Commission
1 year, 6 months ago

Congress Team Meets Election Commission

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The BJP demanded action against errant officials who were spoiling the election process in the state, while the Congress complained about voters lists during a meeting with a team of Election Commission of India officials here on Saturday. BJP leaders alleged that while the ECI had directed transfers of officials who were involved in the election, the process was …

EC probe over deletion of names from voters\' list
2 years ago

EC probe over deletion of names from voters\' list

Deccan Chronicle  

ANANTAPUR: Fraudulent actions relating to the voters list in Andhra Pradesh have surfaced in some areas, leading to suspension of some BLOs. Avinash Kumar, principal secretary to central government, inquired into the irregularities including deletion of the voters’ names from the electoral roll in Cheekalaparvi village in Uravakonda. TD legislator Kesav said names of genuine voters from Chikalparvi villages were …

'It's An Important Issue': Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Alleging "Voter Profiling" By Election Commission
2 years, 1 month ago

'It's An Important Issue': Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Alleging "Voter Profiling" By Election Commission

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today issued notice on a SLP filed by Srinivas Kodali, an engineer from Hyderabad, alleging that Election Commission of India has indulged in "voter profiling" by deploying an "undisclosed software" to link voter records to Aadhaar. "ECI has effectively created a surveillance.sensitive information voters including religion, caste, tribe, ethnicity, language, records of entitlement, income, and medical history …

BJP asks ECI to check bogus voters in Munugode
2 years, 3 months ago

BJP asks ECI to check bogus voters in Munugode

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday charged the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government with “moving its Secretariat from Hyderabad to Munugode” and with abuse of power using its officials to unduly influence voters in the constituency. The BJP also sought intervention of the Election Commission of India to ensure that names of 25,000 bogus voters enrolled into the Munugode constituency …

Kerala elections | Pinarayi Vijayan’s words reflect shame of failure on fake voters issue, says Ramesh Chennithala
3 years, 9 months ago

Kerala elections | Pinarayi Vijayan’s words reflect shame of failure on fake voters issue, says Ramesh Chennithala

The Hindu  

Responding to criticism levelled against him by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the fake voters issue, Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala on Friday said that the former’s words reflected the embarrassment and frustration caused by the failure of a sinister plan to sabotage the democratic process by manipulating the electoral roll. Mr. Chennithala said that by falsely claiming that …

Not just bogus voters, but double votes also exist in voter's list: Chennithala
3 years, 9 months ago

Not just bogus voters, but double votes also exist in voter's list: Chennithala

Deccan Chronicle  

Kannur : Raising fresh allegations of fraud in preparation of voters' list in Kerala ahead of April 6 assembly poll, Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala said many votes have been created in the name of a single voter in multiple constituencies and they should not be allowed to exercise their franchise. Earlier, he had pointed out that there were about four …

4 lakh bogus voters: Chennithala
3 years, 9 months ago

4 lakh bogus voters: Chennithala

The Hindu  

Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala has lauded the Election Commission for its willingness to check his complaint regarding double entries of voter names in the electoral rolls. Mr. Chennithala, who was campaigning in Kasaragod for the Assembly elections, told mediapersons on Tuesday that over four lakh multiple/‘bogus voters’ were included on the voters’ list by officials owing allegiance to …

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP approaches Election Commission over AAP’s voter deletion allegations
5 years, 10 months ago

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP approaches Election Commission over AAP’s voter deletion allegations

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday for “harassing and misleading” voters and falsely accusing it of deletion of 30 lakh names from the electoral list. Vijender Gupta, leader of opposition in Delhi Assembly, along with senior party leaders, lodged the complaint, alleging that the AAP, through …

Multiple entries of voters removed, says Election Commission of India
5 years, 10 months ago

Multiple entries of voters removed, says Election Commission of India

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Clarifying allegations on removal of voters names based on the location of their nativity, caste, and surnames from the electoral lists of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the Election Commission of India submitted to the Telangana High Court that multiple entries of voters were removed by identifying them with the use of a de-duplication software. The ECI informed the court …

Delete 60 lakh duplicate votes, conduct Lok Sabha polls in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on same day: Jagan Reddy to CEC
5 years, 11 months ago

Delete 60 lakh duplicate votes, conduct Lok Sabha polls in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on same day: Jagan Reddy to CEC

Firstpost  

Alleging that duplicate voters list in Andhra Pradesh is on rise, YS Jaganmohan Reddy – also the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly – said out of 369 lakh voters here, nearly 60 lakh voters are invalid or duplicate at present and that need to be deleted to ensure fair election New Delhi: YSRCP President Y S Jaganmohan Reddy …

SC dismisses petition filed by Congress leaders on voters’ list and VVPAT in MP, Rajasthan
6 years, 3 months ago

SC dismisses petition filed by Congress leaders on voters’ list and VVPAT in MP, Rajasthan

Op India  

Two separate petitions filed by senior Congress leaders Kamalnath and Sachin Pilot seeking orders to the Election Commission to provide the draft voter list in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan in text format were quashed by the Supreme Court on Friday. In their petition, the Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Pilot had claimed that as many as 60 lakh names …

Congress alleges manipulation of '70 lakh names' in Telangana voters list; demands Election Commission's intervention
6 years, 4 months ago

Congress alleges manipulation of '70 lakh names' in Telangana voters list; demands Election Commission's intervention

Firstpost  

Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi wondered if the “contamination of the voter lists” was why the KCR government prematurely dissolved the Telangana Assembly. New Delhi: Accusing the Telangana government of trying to vitiate the upcoming Assembly polls by “manipulating voters lists”, the Congress on Sunday demanded the Election Commission’s intervention for verification and sanitisation of electoral rolls. Alleging that as …

Election Commission team meets all stakeholders in Telangana to assess situation
6 years, 4 months ago

Election Commission team meets all stakeholders in Telangana to assess situation

Live Mint  

Hyderabad: Districts in Telangana are preparing for the forthcoming assembly elections, said Umesh Sinha, deputy election commissioner, Election Commission of India on Wednesday. Sinha stated that a team of officials from the ECI that was sent to assess electoral preparedness in Telangana met with the police, senior government officials, political parties and other concerned departments. Earlier slated to be held …

EC rejects Cong's bogus voters claim in Madhya Pradesh
6 years, 7 months ago

EC rejects Cong's bogus voters claim in Madhya Pradesh

India TV News  

The Election Commission today rejected Congress' allegations of large-scale discrepancies in the voters' list of Madhya Pradesh, saying field verifications showed that such charges were not borne out. In a letter to AICC, the poll body said, "The allegations of large-scale entries of multiple voters in these assembly constituencies is not borne out". Soon after a Congress delegation approached the …

EC verifies and rejects Congress’ bogus claims of ‘thousands of fake voters listed in Madhya Pradesh’
6 years, 7 months ago

EC verifies and rejects Congress’ bogus claims of ‘thousands of fake voters listed in Madhya Pradesh’

Op India  

The Election Commission after a preliminary inquiry into the Congress’s allegation of large-scale errors in Madhya Pradesh voter’s list, has clarified that there are no discrepancies in the voters’ list. The EC concluded that “the allegation of large-scale entries of multiple voters in these four Assembly constituencies is not borne out”. The EC also clarified that, “In addition to the …

Election Commission team visits Madhya Pradesh to examine Congress allegation of 60 lakh bogus voters
6 years, 7 months ago

Election Commission team visits Madhya Pradesh to examine Congress allegation of 60 lakh bogus voters

Firstpost  

Lok Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh, Congress’s Jyotiraditya Scindia, had advised the ECI during a meeting in Delhi to take help from technology experts to track and fix duplications in voters list. He said he had brought this to the attention of Madhya Pradesh’s Chief Electoral Officer Salina Singh, after which the names of the MLA’s kin were deleted from …

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