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The Aam Aadmi Party connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) claimed that implicit 4.5 crore names person been removed from Uttar Pradesh's elector database successful a month, arsenic it alleged that the electoral rolls person been manipulated and demanded the Supreme Court bid a probe into the matter.
Senior AAP person and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh accused the State authorities and Election Commission officials of orchestrating "the largest electoral fraud successful Uttar Pradesh's past nether the sanction of SIR".
The State's elector number dropped from 17 crore successful December 2025 to 12.55 crore aft the "so-called thorough revision," efficaciously making implicit 4.5 crore voters disappear, helium claimed. "This is simply a nonstop onslaught connected ideology and the Constitution." The draught electoral rotation for Uttar Pradesh was published connected January 6, with 12.55 crore voters making it to the database and the names of 2.89 crore deleted, according to authoritative data.
Addressing a property league astatine AAP's Lucknow headquarters, Mr. Singh alleged that Uttar Pradesh Government staffers initially prepared abstracted elector lists for gram panchayat, artifact improvement council, zila panchayat, and section assemblage elections, which recorded 17 crore voters.
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However, erstwhile the aforesaid officials conducted the revision, they abruptly claimed the full fig of voters was lone 12.55 crore, helium claimed and sought to cognize the whereabouts of the missing voters.
"This is not an mistake but a planned fraud that indispensable beryllium thoroughly investigated," the AAP MP said.
Mr. Singh further claimed that aft removing 4.5 crore voters, the Chief Minister projected adding 200 votes to each of the State's 1.77 lakh polling booths. This could effect successful astir 3.5 crore artificial votes, helium claimed.
The AAP person besides alleged that the BJP was creating bogus voters by bringing radical from Bihar, Haryana, Delhi, Mumbai and Rajasthan.
He accused the ruling enactment of archetypal removing absorption votes and past artificially inflating numbers, citing an lawsuit wherever a BJP legislator allegedly admitted that 18,000 votes had been added to his constituency.
Questioning the ECI's claims that 46 lakh voters were dormant and 25 lakh were duplicates, Mr. Singh demanded that the implicit records beryllium made public.
The AAP person demanded that the Supreme Court instrumentality cognisance of the "manipulation", which helium claimed could interaction spot and rights. The contented would beryllium raised with the Chief Electoral Officer and successful Parliament arsenic well, helium added.
