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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission connected Friday refuted Congress person 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.This comes a time aft Congress person Rahul Gandhi reiterated his "vote chori" allegations and took a swipe astatine the Election Commission, calling it an "election watchman" who "stayed awake, watched the theft, and protected the thieves".Rahul Gandhi accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of shielding “vote chors” and systematically deleting Congress supporters’ names from elector rolls. He claimed a centralized software-driven method was being utilized to impersonate voters and erase names, chiefly targeting Dalits, OBCs, Adivasis, minorities, and different opposition-leaning communities.Displaying Aland data, helium asserted helium had “100% proof” of ballot manipulation."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.
