Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba also condemns the refusal by a hospital in Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh to treat a pregnant Muslim woman
NEW DELHI — The Congress on Sunday alleged that the Election Commission has deliberately targeted Dalit and Muslim women voters and dropped from the electoral rolls during the recently held controversial Special Intensive Revision in Bihar.
Addressing a press conference here, president of All India Mahila Congress, Alka Lamba revealed that 22.7 lakh women voters’ names had been removed from the electoral rolls. She said, most of these voters were removed in six districts.
The Mahila Congress president also condemned the refusal by a hospital in Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh to treat a pregnant Muslim woman, just because of her religion. She asserted that such things cannot be accepted and this tendency must be nipped in the bud.
Tracking the pattern of the SIR, she said that 60 constituencies in six districts have been targeted for the deletion of voters’ names. She pointed out that in the 2020 Bihar elections it was a close contest between the Mahagathbandhan and the NDA in these seats. She added that the voters’ names were deleted under a well-planned conspiracy to tilt the balance in NDA’s favour.
The Mahila Congress president reaffirmed her party’s commitment against vote theft in Bihar. She said that about 23 lakh women and 15 lakh male voters’ names had been deleted during the recent SIR exercise, aimed solely at denying the right to vote to those whom the BJP fears will vote against it.
Questioning the logic of removing the voters’ names at this stage by declaring them bogus, she asked, by this argument, shouldn’t the 2024 parliamentary elections in these areas be cancelled and conducted once again.
In response to a question, Lamba reaffirmed her party’s stance against the SIR and said that on October 15, the party will submit 5 crore signatures to the ECI against the vote theft in the country. She asked the ECI, the prime minister and the Union home minister to stop playing such games as they have already been exposed.
