New Delhi [India], January 6 : Aam Aadmi Party Chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday claimed that a "Large-Scale" fraud in voter addition and deletions in the New Delhi Assembly seat is taking place.
In a post on X, Kejriwal cited a letter from Chief Minister Atishi sent to Delhi Chief Electoral Officer.
"Large-scale fraud taking place in voter additions and deletions in the New Delhi assembly. Delhi CM Atishi ji writes this letter to CEC presenting evidence and seeking time to meet," he said.
CM Atishi, in her letter to the Delhi CEO, said, "I am writing to urgently draw your attention towards a significant surge in voter addition and deletion applications in the New Delhi Assembly Constituency over the past few days."
She mentioned that from October 29, 2024, to January 2, 2025, a total of 13,276 Form-6 were received.
"From October 29 to January 2, 6,166 Form-7 were received," CM Atishi said.
"Total no of votes, as per draft electoral rolls published after summary revision on 29 October 2024, is 1,06,873. Number of votes sought to be deleted is 6,166, which is 5.77 per cent of total votes," she added.
The Delhi CM, in her letter, said that as per various rules, if the number of deletions sought is more than 2 percent of total votes, then the Election Registration Officer (ERO) will personally verify each deletion request.
"Those requests found by the ERO to be correct after field verification will be sent notices of hearing by the ERO. These rules have to be followed in the instant case as more than 2 percent votes are sought to be deleted in the New Delhi Assembly," she said.
The Delhi CM alleged that these rules are not being followed and the ERO has not made any field visits.
"He (ERO) just made one visit on 27 December 2024, to H Block Type 1 Kali Bari and Kali Bari Jhuggi area along with our BLA and came back without doing any verification. ERO has proceeded to make deletions without any field visits despite our reminding the ERO and DEO through several oral and written requests reminding them of the rule position. ERO says that it is not physically possible for him to personally do so many field verifications," CM Atishi said.
The assembly elections in Delhi are likely to be held in February 2025.
AAP won 62 out of the 70 seats in the 2020 assembly elections and BJP secured eight seats.