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NEW DELHI: The Congress-led Karnataka authorities connected Saturday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the "vote deletion" successful the Aland assembly segment.The determination by the authorities authorities comes days aft Congress person Rahul Gandhi accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of protecting "vote chors" and radical who person destroyed democracy. Displaying information of Aland connected a large surface during the property conference, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the votes of Congress supporters were being systematically deleted up of elections."I americium going to amusement the youth, the people, impervious that is achromatic and white, perfectly wide that Chief Election Commissioner of India is protecting radical who person destroyed Indian democracy. I volition besides amusement you the methods by which votes are added, deleted and amusement you however it is done," Rahul Gandhi said.He alleged that a radical of radical is utilizing a centralised method done bundle and impersonating existent voters, and deleting their names from the elector lists."In Aland, Karnataka, 6018 votes, idiosyncratic tried to delete these votes. We don't cognize the full fig of votes deleted successful the 2023 elections, but idiosyncratic got caught. It was caught, by astir crimes, by coincidence. What happened was that the Booth Level serviceman noticed that her uncle's ballot had been deleted.
When she checked, she saw that her neighbour had deleted the vote," Gandhi said during the property conference."When she asked the neighbour, helium said that helium is not alert of doing specified a thing. So neither the neighbour nor the idiosyncratic whose ballot was deleted knew. Some different unit hijacked the process and deleted the vote. As luck would person it, it got caught," helium added.
Poll assemblage refutes Rahul's claim
The Election Commission connected Friday refuted Rahul Gandhi's charges, claiming that "no deletion of votes tin beryllium done online by immoderate subordinate of the public."The canvass body, successful a point-wise statement, said that the nary sanction is deleted from the rotation without issuing a announcement to the affected person."No Deletion of immoderate ballot tin beryllium done online by immoderate subordinate of the public. No wrongful deletion of electors successful Aland; an FIR was registered by the authorization of ECI itself successful 2023 against suspicious attempts of deletions," it said."Although the Elector of the constituency tin capable Form 7 online to use for deletion of an introduction from that peculiar constituency, it does not mean that the introduction gets automatically deleted simply by submitting the Form 7.
As per Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, nary sanction is deleted from the rotation without issuing a announcement to the affected idiosyncratic and giving him an accidental of being heard," it added.It further said that the canvass assemblage lone accepted 24 applications of deletion and 5,994 incorrect applications were rejected up of the assembly predetermination successful Aland. It besides said a enquiry was conducted & subsequently an FIR was registered by Electoral Registration Officer, Aland"In the lawsuit of Aland, Karnataka, 6,018 applications successful Form 7 for deletion were submitted online. On verification, lone 24 applications were recovered to beryllium genuine, portion 5,994 were recovered to beryllium incorrect. Accordingly, 24 applications were accepted, and the 5,994 incorrect applications were rejected," it said."Suspecting the genuineness of specified a ample fig of applications for deletion, an enquiry was conducted & subsequently an FIR (No. 26/2023, Aland Police Station, dated 21.02.2023) was registered," it added.
