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BJP’s State spokesperson M. G. Mahesh has dismissed Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) spokesperson M. Lakshmana’s allegations astir ample standard deletion of names from the voters’ database successful Karnataka arsenic “false and misleading”.
Addressing a property league successful Mysuru connected Wednesday, Mr. Mahesh said the Election Commission of India was inactive successful the process of mapping the voters successful Karnataka up of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which seeks to verify, revise and update the electoral rolls.
While the workout seeks to region the names that had been entered aggregate times and the names of deceased persons among others, the KPCC spokesperson was indulging successful “fear mongering” by spreading lies astir large-scale deletion of names from the voters’ list. He sought the apprehension of Mr. Lakshmana for creating “unnecessary unrest” among the voters.
Mr. Mahesh was referring to Mr. Lakshmana’s assertion that the names of 86 lakh voters successful Karnataka including astir 60,000 voters successful Narasimharaja Assembly constituency had been deleted.
Mr. Mahesh said the penning connected the partition is wide that an imminent rout awaits the Congress successful the adjacent Assembly elections. So, the Congress party’s spokesperson is utilizing SIR arsenic an excuse for its impending nonaccomplishment successful the elections, helium said.
The BJP spokesperson besides sought to marque it wide that determination is nary transportation betwixt the Centre and the Election Commission of India (ECI) successful the SIR.
The SIR had been taken up successful India aft a spread of much than 20 years and the ECI was going astir verifying and revising the electoral rolls. Also, the mapping had been taken up by the Booth Level Officers (BLOs), who are the employees of Congress Government successful Karnataka.
Claiming that the Congress had welcomed SIR successful Kerala, Mr. Mahesh said the Congress welcomes SIR and Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) wherever it does good and criticises it whenever it fails.
