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BJP person and erstwhile Aland MLA Subhash Guttedar and his lad Harshanand Guttedar person rejected the charges levelled against them successful the chargesheet filed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing alleged elector fraud during the 2023 Assembly elections successful Aland constituency.
Responding to the SIT naming them arsenic premier accused, the father-son duo claimed that the determination was politically motivated and timed to suit the Congress party’s “vote theft” communicative up of the planned agitation successful New Delhi connected Sunday.
Addressing the media successful Kalaburagi connected Saturday, the Guttedars said the chargesheet had been filed successful haste.
“The elections were held successful 2023, and Mr. Patil did not rise the contented of ballot theft for two-and-a-half years. Only aft Rahul Gandhi started speaking astir ‘vote theft’ astatine the nationalist level did Mr. Patil assertion that it had happened successful Aland arsenic well,” Mr. Subhash Guttedar said.
He said helium had already been cleared by courts successful earlier cases wherever superior allegations had been made against him and expressed assurance of getting alleviation successful the contiguous lawsuit arsenic well. He added that some helium and his lad had cooperated with the SIT and fixed statements, intelligibly stating that they had nary relation successful immoderate alleged elector deletion.
“Deletion of voters is simply a process governed by rules. Form 7 has to beryllium submitted, Anganwadi workers guardant it, and the tahsildar scrutinises it. It is not thing that we tin bash connected our own,” helium said, denying immoderate interaction with those who had allegedly applied for elector deletion.
Asked astir his adjacent people of action, helium said helium would situation the chargesheet legally and alleged that the determination was aimed astatine preventing him from contesting aboriginal elections.
Echoing his father’s views, Harshanand Guttedar said an earlier enquiry by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had made nary headway for astir 2 years.
The SIT chargesheet followed an probe into allegations of large-scale deletion and manipulation of voters’ names successful Aland constituency during the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections.
