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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has launched a elector deletion workout successful the Thrissur constituency up of the forthcoming Assembly elections, allegedly modelled connected elector manipulation witnessed during the caller Lok Sabha polls, Thrissur District Congress Committee (DCC) president Joseph Tajet has alleged.
Addressing the media present connected Wednesday, Mr. Tajet said the BJP had filed Form 7 applications connected a ample standard seeking the deletion of 374 voters crossed six booths — 150, 151, 155, 157, 163 and 166 — successful the Thrissur constituency. He alleged that the applications lacked valid grounds and selectively targeted voters traditionally aligned with the Congress-led United Democratic Front.
He further claimed that successful booth fig 166, the BJP had adjacent sought the deletion of the lad of the Booth Level Officer, Tejas Thomas, from the electoral roll. Accusing the CPI(M) of tacitly facilitating the move, Mr. Tajet said caller UDF gains successful section assemblage elections had unsettled some the LDF and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, prompting attempts to “hijack the elector database done the backmost door.”
Mr. Tajet alleged that the initiation of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) procedures had resulted successful the exclusion of thousands of voters who had exercised their franchise successful the past Lok Sabha election. He claimed that astir 24,000 voters from the Thrissur constituency were removed from the ASD (Absentee, Shifted and Dead) list alone, raising superior questions astir who filed the applications, whether hearings were conducted, and whether immoderate field-level verification by Booth Level Officers took place.
‘Opaque process’
Describing the process arsenic unilateral and opaque, helium alleged that voters were deprived of their antiauthoritarian rights based connected anonymous applications and without owed procedure. Mr. Tajet demanded contiguous involution by the Election Commission and the District Collector .
He said the Congress had already lodged a ceremonial ailment with the District Collector and alleged that akin attempts successful respective different booths were withdrawn lone aft they triggered controversy. He besides demanded transgression enactment against BJP leaders who, helium claimed, submitted Form 7 applications successful usurpation of established norms with the intent to manipulate the electoral roll.
