A controversy erupted hours after a meeting between the AAP leadership and Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat Friday, with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal blaming the election body of "lying" over the number of names deleted from the voters' list in the national capital.
Earlier, Kejriwal accompanied by his deputy, Manish Sisodia, and party leader Raghav Chadha met Rawat, alleging deletion of names of party supporters from the voters' list.
He also alleged that the BJP in "collusion" with lower level officers was responsible for it, and claimed that the Election Commission informed him that 10 lakh voters' names were deleted and 13 lakh added since last the Assembly election in Delhi in 2015.
The Election Commission termed this as "factually incorrect", saying no such thing was confirmed by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC).
After the meeting, Chadha tweeted, "CEC in today's meeting confirmed that more than 10 lac votes have been deleted in Delhi. Our preliminary inquiry reveals anti-BJP votes deleted in large numbers. Request all those who wish to defeat BJP to check their voter-id validity."
Replying to him, Election Commission spokesperson Sheyphali Sharan tweeted, "Factually incorrect....ECI did not 'confirm that more than 10 lac "votes" have been deleted'.. since AAP delegation insisted, ECI agreed 2 enquire specifically in2 Lal quan Tughlaqabad ERoll. Updation of voters list is an ongoing process, next list wld b published only on 4.1.19 (sic)."
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