New Delhi, Oct 5 (PTI) The Congress on Sunday claimed that the names of practically 23 lakh ladies have been faraway from the voter listing in Bihar beneath the SIR with the majority of them being from 59 meeting seats the place a “shut contest” was witnessed within the 2020 elections.

Reiterating its “vote chori” claims, the opposition celebration additionally alleged that the Election Fee of India “focused” Dalit and Muslim ladies voters whose names have been dropped from the listing as a part of a “well-planned conspiracy” throughout the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls within the state.

The Congress requested when these ladies had solid their votes within the Lok Sabha elections final 12 months, have been these votes “fraudulent” and whether or not MPs elected on “pretend votes” helped type the federal government.

Addressing a press convention on the celebration’s Indira Bhawan headquarters right here, All India Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba additionally alleged that “on the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and House Minister Amit Shah”, the Election Fee is committing “huge fraud” within the identify of SIR in Bihar.

“There are roughly 3.5 crore ladies voters in Bihar, however the names of roughly 23 lakh ladies (22.7 lakh) have been faraway from the voters’ listing,” she claimed.

These ladies will be unable to vote within the upcoming meeting elections and “we consider this determination is towards the Structure”, Lamba stated.

“Gopalganj, Saran, Begusarai, Samastipur, Bhojpur, and Purnea are the six districts in Bihar the place the names of most variety of ladies have been faraway from the voters’ listing,” she claimed.

These six districts embody about 60 meeting seats, Lamba stated.

“If we take a look at the 2020 meeting election information, the INDIA bloc events received 25 seats right here whereas the NDA bagged 34 and an in depth contest was witnessed,” she stated. “Now, the Election Fee has dedicated huge fraud in these very seats within the identify of SIR,” she alleged.

In Bihar, the names of twenty-two.7 lakh ladies have been deleted, whereas the names of roughly 15 lakh males have been faraway from the voter listing, Lamba claimed.

The Congress is operating a nationwide signature marketing campaign towards this “vote theft”, throughout which the celebration will accumulate 5 crore signatures, she stated.

“The votes of lakhs of girls in Bihar have been deleted. In such a state of affairs, our questions are: When these similar ladies solid their votes within the Lok Sabha elections final 12 months, have been these votes nonetheless fraudulent? Did these pretend votes elect MPs who fashioned the federal government?” Lamba stated.

“Right this moment, a conspiracy is underway so as to add and delete names on the final minute, however we’ll expose it,” the Mahila Congress president stated.

“On one hand, Prime Minister Modi is depositing cash into ladies’s accounts to affect the Bihar elections, and however, he, in collusion with the Election Fee, deleted the names of roughly 23 lakh ladies from the voters’ listing,” she stated.

“Modi has focused and cancelled ladies’s votes and brought away their rights. However irrespective of how a lot Narendra Modi and the Election Fee strive, we is not going to enable ‘vote theft’ to occur in Bihar,” she stated.

Her remarks got here on a day Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar voiced satisfaction over the completion of SIR in Bihar, claiming that the train “purified” the voters’ listing after 22 years.

He made the remarks at a press convention in Patna earlier than winding up his tour of the state, the place meeting elections are prone to be introduced quickly.

The overall variety of electors in poll-bound Bihar have come down by practically 47 lakh to 7.42 crore within the ultimate electoral roll printed final Tuesday from 7.89 crore earlier than the SIR of the voters’ listing carried out by the Election Fee.

The ultimate determine has, nonetheless, elevated by 17.87 lakh from 7.24 crore electors named within the draft listing issued on August 1, which had eliminated 65 lakh voters from the unique listing on varied accounts, together with deaths, migration and duplication of voters.

Whereas 21.53 lakh new electors have been added to the draft listing, 3.66 lakh names have been faraway from there, leading to a internet enhance of 17.87 lakh.

The ultimate determine could change marginally after supplementary lists are printed throughout the ballot course of.

The EC’s train has drawn sharp protests from the Opposition, which has accused the ballot physique of working on the behest of the ruling BJP, a cost it has flatly rejected.

The Fee has asserted that it’s going to not enable any eligible citizen to be neglected of the voters’ listing and on the similar time, not let any ineligible particular person be on the listing.

The meeting election schedule is prone to be introduced by the ballot physique this week and the polls are anticipated to be held quickly after Chhath, an necessary competition in Bihar that may be celebrated within the final week of October.

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