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About 15 lakh letters from Kerala volition beryllium sent to the Election Commission successful Delhi, arsenic portion of the Congress party’s nationwide signature run against ballot theft successful the Lok Sabha and State Assembly, the AICC General Secretary, Deepa Das Munshi and KPCC Working president P.C. Vishnunath, said astatine a property league present connected Saturday.
The Congress volition cod 5 crore signatures from crossed the state and taxable it to the Election Commission astatine a mega rally successful Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan astatine the extremity of November.
From Kerala, 14 lakh signatures person already been collected. The letters volition beryllium dispatched from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, and Kozhikode.
The signature run demands that photo-based, machine-readable electoral rolls beryllium made disposable for nationalist verification.
It besides demands that photo-attached lists of deletions and additions are made disposable for cross-checking earlier each predetermination and that a speedy grievance redressal mechanics beryllium acceptable up for cases of wrongful deletion from the voters’ list.
The Congress claimed that the run had drawn an overwhelming effect from the public. The wide irregularities successful the counting process, arsenic revealed by Rahul Gandhi, had triggered a monolithic question of nationalist outrage crossed the country, which is present reflected successful the magnitude of the signature campaign.
Ms. Das Munshi and Mr. Vishnunath warned that the ballot theft seen successful the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections could beryllium repeated successful the upcoming section assemblage elections successful Kerala.
Though galore complaints person already been submitted to the Chief Electoral Officer, thing has been done. They alleged that the existent strategy allowed anyone’s sanction to beryllium arbitrarily deleted from the electoral rolls. Despite objections, the authorities is pushing up with an intensive elector database revision, and a ample fig of genuine voters from the 2002 rolls person been excluded.
Ms. Das Munshi and Mr. Vishnunath, pointed retired that neither the Central government, the Election Commission, nor the BJP has responded to Rahul Gandhi’s elaborate property league raising allegations of ballot theft.
The “Vote Theft” signature run is simply a societal crusade, they said.
The electoral manipulations person gravely undermined the credibility of antiauthoritarian elections successful India, they added
