Election Commission accused of stonewalling opposition demands for a digital voter list
NEW DELHI — The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the BJP, accusing it of evading a discussion on the controversial Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. Senior party leaders claimed the ruling party was “neck-deep” in an electoral scam that extends beyond Bihar to other states and even national elections.
In the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, AAP MP Sanjay Singh said the Modi government’s refusal to prioritise the SIR issue in Parliament proved its complicity. “At this moment, the issue of SIR is a very big one. If any other business is taken up without discussing it, it means the Modi government has no concern for such a massive electoral scam in a democracy. It also proves that the BJP is involved in this entire game,” Singh asserted.
Citing the Delhi Assembly elections as an example, Singh alleged large-scale voter manipulation and deletion. “In Delhi, there were cases where 33 votes were registered at a Union minister’s residential address, and in some cases, 35. BJP workers submitted petitions to delete thousands of votes in 14 assembly constituencies. People who had been living in Delhi for many years suddenly found their names missing,” he said. According to him, AAP had presented detailed data and even Aadhaar cards of affected voters before the Election Commission, but no action followed.
Singh called the Delhi election result “an undeniable scam”, alleging that BJP’s winning margin was only 2% and that within this, 7–8% votes were manipulated. He also accused the Congress of remaining silent at the time. “The same was done by the BJP in Maharashtra, Haryana, and other states — and also in the national elections. In Bihar, votes are being registered in the names of dead people and even Donald Trump,” Singh alleged.
Joining the attack, AAP’s Delhi State President Saurabh Bhardwaj accused the Election Commission of stonewalling opposition demands for a digital voter list. “On the issue of ‘vote chori’, the Election Commission is hiding and running away while BJP leaders defend it. What problem can the Election Commission have in giving a digital copy of the voter list? If they give it, the entire country’s fraud will be exposed in just a week,” he said.
Bhardwaj further claimed that the process of accessing voter information had been made deliberately cumbersome. “The Election Commission has intentionally made this process so difficult that one has to conduct research for months to expose them. Clearly, large-scale fraud is taking place inside this system,” he alleged.
Warning of future legal action, Bhardwaj said, “Whenever the government changes, legal action should be taken against the Election Commissioners and they should be sent to jail. Gyanesh Kumar and other officials are direct accomplices in this legal crime.”