One person, multiple IDs: Congress accuses BJP of ‘vote chori’ in Gujarat too
Gujarat Congress chief Amit Chavda alleged large-scale voter roll manipulation in Gujarat’s Navsari, claiming 30,000 fake or duplicate entries, and demanded a full verification of the electoral rolls.
The Gujarat unit of the Congress party on Saturday accused the ruling BJP of orchestrating a large-scale “vote chori” (vote theft) in the state, alleging that thousands of fake and duplicate entries have been found in the electoral rolls.
State Congress president Amit Chavda said the party’s scrutiny of voter lists has revealed that “one person, multiple votes” is becoming a recurring pattern in Gujarat. He claimed the alleged manipulation was most evident in the Navsari Lok Sabha constituency, represented by Gujarat BJP chief and Union Cabinet minister CR Patil.
According to Chavda, a detailed examination of the Choriyasi Assembly segment in Navsari showed serious discrepancies. Out of 6,09,592 registered voters, Congress said it checked about 40 per cent of the entries and found nearly 30,000 to be “duplicate, fake or suspicious”.
“If one constituency shows such a scale of fraud, imagine how democracy is being undermined across the state. Questions are now being raised about CR Patil’s record victories in the past elections,” Chavda said.
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