Delhi AAP traces 9 voters deleted from EC list

Delhi | Sunday | 4th November, 2018

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NEW DELHI: AAP claimed to have traced nine voters whose names have been deleted from the voters’ list . “Some EC officials in connivance with some BJP leaders are striking off names of Delhi voters from the voters’ list. On what basis have their names been deleted,” he asked.On the basis of the deleted names put up on the commission’s website, AAP got some of the data checked by its volunteers. “To vote is a fundamental right and the conspiracy of EC has snatched away this right of 10 lakh people.”He demanded that the names of these voters should be added back to the list and EC should take strict action against the officers responsible for the deletion. Though they still live at the addresses mentioned in the list, the “election commission found that these voters had shifted and deleted their names”, it alleged on Saturday.Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia claimed that it was being done at the behest of BJP, which is afraid of losing the next elections..