Bengaluru, 20 September (IANS) The Karnataka government has announced that the allegations of ‘vote theft’ in relation to the Aland Assembly section raised by the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha will be investigated by Rahul Gandhi, Special Investigation Team (SIT).
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday gave a statement in this regard in Gadag City, answering a question in this regard. “Rahul Gandhi has stated that about 6,000 voters in the Alund constituency were removed, and this is true. A seating will be investigated in the voter fraud case in Alund,” Siddaramaiah replied to a question on voter fraud while answering a question on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations.
Development is likely to trigger a line.
The clarity of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, RDPR ministers, IT and BT Priyank Kharge and Allend MLA Braley denied the allegations, dubbed claims at a joint press conference as a complete lie at a joint press conference.
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru on Friday, Minister Priyank Kharge said, “After Rahul Gandhi’s press conference, the Election Commission is now speaking as it was those who discovered and stopped voters fraud. They are claiming that they themselves stopped the deletion of voters from the electoral rolls. It is a complete lie.”
Aland, the Congress MLA of Bra Patil had said, “I congratulate Rahul Gandhi for bringing the issue of fraud for a national attention, and also thanks Priyank Kharge for standing in my support.”
“Prior to the 2023 assembly elections, a Vijay Kumar of Kamanalli village in my constituency called me, stating that a request was filed to remove his name from the list of voters. When the blow came and asked him, he clarified that he did not apply. Soon, many similar cases started coming up.
Overall, requests were filed to remove the names of 6,018 voters supporting the Congress party. This shocked us. On February 10, 2023, I wrote to Kalaburagi DC. On 11 February 2023, Priyank Kharge and I held a press conference. On February 13, 2023, I filed a complaint with Aland Tehsildar. On February 20, 2023, Priyank Kharge, Ramesh Babu, and I submitted a complaint to former Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Meena, “said MLA Patil.
“When we contacted the State Election Commission, the matter was widely informed in the media. The Commission said after considering our allegations,” Our claims were true and directed that the situation be maintained. Later, the Alund Election Officer filed a police complaint about fake applications to remove voters, and demanded action against those responsibilities. “
“Initially, the investigation was handed over to the Alund Dye SP, but due to lack of cooperation, it was stalled. Later, this Kalaburagi was given to the additional SP, who had also informed about the lack of cooperation and the inability to move forward.
The Congress MLA alleged, “In my constituency, 6,018 applications were filed for the deletion, but even those whose names were filed in the names had no knowledge of it, nor did the voters whose names were removed. It was a conspiracy to lose the election. The BJP and the Election Commission plotted me together.”
For example, applications were filed to remove 12 voters, in the name of a retired teacher, Suryakant, whose epic numbers were used. When they faced him, he refused to record any request. Similarly, Godbai, who can hardly read or write, allegedly filed online requests to remove 12 voters in just 14 minutes. When the mobile numbers used were called, they were detected for Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
“Now, the EC is claiming that those voters were not really removed. It is true – they were not removed. But are we not alert, would have passed through the deletion, and I would have lost the election. If they were removed the votes, they would lose by about 1,500 votes.” Hydrogen bomb “on this issue, he said”.
For a fair investigation into this voter fraud case, EC should provide all the information required by CID. But yesterday, the Joint CEO of Karnataka wrote to the Principal Secretary of EC claiming that all records were provided. This is a total lie. If all documents were provided, why did CID write 18 letters? None of these letters have been responded to, he slammed.
BJP national spokesperson Shahzad Poonwal, while referring to the allegations of ‘vote theft’, alleged that the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is not being targeted by the Election Commission; Rather, he bears “Indira Gandhi’s emergency mentality”.
Poonwale said that Rahul Gandhi talks about vote theft, but he should also talk about disqualifying Karnataka Congress MLA Congress MLA Q Nanjegowda recently. Rahul Gandhi should watch videos of Shashi Tharoor and Kirti Azad, he challenged.
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