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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar connected Sunday visited the nationalist superior to enactment successful the ‘Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod’ rally astatine the Ramlila grounds by the Congress, alleging systematic “vote theft” and misuse of electoral processes by the BJP.
According to a property merchandise from Mr. Siddaramaiah’s office, the enactment said its mobilisation successful Delhi was not simply a governmental protestation but an effort to support the law close to vote, which it described arsenic the cornerstone of democracy.
Aland and Mahadevapura
The Chief Minister’s connection highlighted Congress person Rahul Gandhi’s relation successful raising concerns implicit alleged irregularities, including mismatched elector lists and booth-level manipulation crossed respective States. Specific references were made to the Mahadevapura and Aland Assembly segments successful Karnataka, wherever irregularities were flagged.
In Aland, the merchandise noted, a Special Investigation Team has filed a chargesheet against 7 individuals, including a erstwhile BJP MLA and his son, successful transportation with the alleged attempted deletion of astir 6,000 voters’ names up of the 2023 Assembly elections.
The connection said the contented went beyond technicalities and straight affected citizens, peculiarly women, the elderly, Dalits, OBCs, minorities, and the poor, whose antiauthoritarian dependable was being compromised. It called for transparent electoral rolls, accountability of predetermination authorities, autarkic institutions, and a voting strategy that inspires nationalist trust.
To support voting rights
Meanwhile, Mr. Shivakumar said the agitation was aimed astatine protecting the voting rights of the country’s 140 crore radical and had “no governmental motive”.
Speaking to the media astatine Karnataka Bhavan successful Delhi, helium said the Congress, nether the enactment of Mr. Rahul Gandhi and enactment president Mallikarjun Kharge, had launched the protestation successful Bengaluru and was present taking it to the nationalist capital. “Elections are nary longer being conducted successful a escaped and just manner. Despite repeated representations and grounds placed successful the nationalist domain, the Election Commission has not fixed satisfactory answers,” helium said.
Mr. Shivakumar said astir 3,500 to 4,000 workers from Karnataka had arrived successful Delhi to instrumentality portion successful the protest. He added that 1.42 crore signatures had been collected during a Statewide run against alleged ballot theft.
DKS stays on
While the Chief Minister connected Sunday evening returned to Belagavi, wherever the Winter Session of the legislature is on, Mr. Shivakumar stayed backmost successful Delhi to be to the National Herald case. While helium met Congress leaders - Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Mr. Rahul Gandhi, and Mr. Kharge during the luncheon organised by the enactment earlier the rally, helium besides met different leaders including Randeep Singh Surjewala precocious connected Sunday evening.
