9,746 voter IDs found in a flat in Bengaluru

Team Udayavani, May 9, 2018, 11:30 AM IST

Bengaluru: The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday documented a First Information Report (FIR) on discovering counterfoils and 9,746 voters ID cards in the Rajarajeshwari Nagar. 

The state’s Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar said on late Tuesday night “A FIR is being enrolled after almost 9,746 voter cards were found in a flat in Rajarajeshwari Nagar constitutuency alongside around one lakh counterfoils looking like acknowledgement slips utilized for expansion of names into electoral rolls were discovered,” 

On investigation, the voter cards were observed to be genuine, while the counterfoils were to be checked through examination, Kumar said. Five workstations and one printer were additionally found in the loft, he included. 

“Further investigation will be directed into the issue and will be nearly checked by the EC,” he said. 

Three eyewitnesses from the poll pane lvisiting the flat in the constituency, which has a total of 4,35,439 voters, Kumar said.

Alongside Kumar, the District Election Officer and the city’s municipal body Commissioner M. Maheshwar Rao, the city Police Commissioner T. Suneel Kumar had visited the area where the voter cards were found. 

The representative of the Congress party Randeep Singh Surjewala claimed that the flat where the voter IDs were discovered had a place with a BJP leader. 

“BJP instituted this show in a flat having a place with their own leader Manjula Nanjamari. She has leased the flat to her son who challenged the 2015 BBMP (Bengaluru urban body) elections on a BJP ticket. Flat was raided not by police or EC but rather by BJP workers,” Surjewala affirmed.

Union Human Resource Development Minister and the gathering’s in-control for state surveys Prakash Javadekar said in a tweet “The BJP requests rescinding of elections in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in light of most recent disclosures of a huge number of fake voter IDs and discharge parcels of hard cash. This is Congress intrigue to fix decision even with their unavoidable annihilation,”