Exclusion of 30 lakh voters during Aadhaar linking exercise in 2015 impacted 2018 Telangana Assembly polls, claims Swecha
5 years, 10 months ago

Exclusion of 30 lakh voters during Aadhaar linking exercise in 2015 impacted 2018 Telangana Assembly polls, claims Swecha

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Around 30 lakh voters in Telangana were left out of the electoral process by the end NERP-AP in April 2015 Around 30 lakh voters in Telangana and 25 lakh voters in Andhra Pradesh were left out of the electoral process by the end of the Electoral Photo Identity Card and Aadhaar linkage exercise taken up by Election Commission of India as a part of the National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme in April 2015, a non-profit organisation Swecha has claimed in a statement on 25 February. The Swecha statement says that the exercise impacted the Telangana Assembly elections held in December 2018, primarily because of the Aadhaar-Voter ID linking pilot projects which were being carried out in Nizamabad and Hyderabad since 2014. It may be recalled that during the Telangana assembly polls, several voters had complained that their names were missing from electoral rolls. Meanwhile, a Right to Information response from the chief electoral office validated claims that a large number of names were deleted from electoral rolls in Telangana in 2015.

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Should voter ID be linked with Aadhaar to combat voter fraud? | The Hindu parley podcast
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AAP, BJP row over voter ‘deletions’ in RK Puram
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1 month ago

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Hindustan Times  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Hindustan Times  

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India TV News  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Hindustan Times  

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1 year, 1 month ago

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Hindustan Times  

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The Hindu  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Live Law  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Hindustan Times  

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India TV News  

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As it happened | Telangana Lok Sabha results 2019: highlights
5 years, 7 months ago

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The Hindu  

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Sporadic violence, missing names in voter list surface in AP and Telangana
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Live Mint  

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Opinion | The Election Commission must come clean on the deletion of voters
5 years, 9 months ago

Opinion | The Election Commission must come clean on the deletion of voters

Hindustan Times  

In December last year, there were strong protests in Telangana during the assembly elections, when it came to light that as many as 30 lakh voters had been struck off the rolls during a 2015 “clean up” exercise by the Election Commission. The case — Srinivas Kodali v Election Commission of India — is important because it does not simply …

Telangana high court not to decide now on Election Commission data
5 years, 9 months ago

Telangana high court not to decide now on Election Commission data

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court said it would consider the question ordering deletion of Aadhaar data with the Election Commission during the final disposal of a petition on the matter. A division bench headed by Justice V. Ramasubramanian was issuing interim directions on a petition filed by Mr Kodali Srinivas of Miyapur, who wanted the source code of the EC’s …

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP approaches Election Commission over AAP’s voter deletion allegations
5 years, 9 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, 9 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 …

Deletion of 30 lakh voter names in Telangana: ECI violated norms, used state surveillance data to decide who votes, says NGO Swecha
5 years, 10 months ago

Deletion of 30 lakh voter names in Telangana: ECI violated norms, used state surveillance data to decide who votes, says NGO Swecha

Firstpost  

In an interview with Firstpost, Swecha’s general secretary Kiran Chandra explains where the NERP-AP went wrong in Telangana In the National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme held across Telangana in April 2015 to remove duplicate voters, the names of over 30 lakh voters were deleted, response to an RTI query revealed on Monday. The software that was used to …

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