Kejriwal moves EC over deletion of voters’ names

new delhi — Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday alleged that names of lakhs of voters had been axed from electoral rolls in Delhi and blamed the BJP for it.

In a letter to Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat, Kejriwal said that most people whose names have been deleted exist and the deletion had been done “with mala fide intent”.

“The procedure prescribed under law for deletion of names has not been followed in almost all cases, which raises suspicion about the motives,” Kejriwal said.

Kejriwal approached the poll panel after the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) South Delhi Lok Sabha incharge Raghav Chadha claimed that about 100,000 voters’ named have been dropped from the South Delhi parliamentary constituency alone at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).