Jagan Suspects Deletion Of 50 Ysrcp Votes Per Booth
Great Andhra
YSR Congress Party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday instructed party coordinators and regional in-charges to remain vigilant during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, alleging that the exercise could be misused to remove YSRCP
supporters from voter lists.
The voter-list revision exercise began across Andhra Pradesh on Monday as part of a nationwide programme.
Booth Level Officers are currently visiting households and distributing application forms that will later be used to update the electoral rolls.
Addressing senior party leaders at the YSRCP central office in Tadepalli, Jagan alleged that Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was using the government machinery to remove YSRCP supporters from the electoral rolls and had set a target of deleting at least 50 YSRCP votes from every polling booth.
He alleged that there was an attempt to alter the electoral rolls through administrative manipulation rather than democratic means and warned that every such move should be resisted through lawful and organised action.
Describing the protection of voters as the foremost responsibility of the party organisation, Jagan called upon constituency coordinators, Booth Level Agents and grassroots leaders to ensure that not a single genuine vote was lost.
He further alleged that Naidu had a history of using gimmicks to influence electoral processes and stressed that only continuous field-level monitoring, daily reviews and immediate intervention could prevent wrongful deletions.
Jagan described the next four weeks as crucial and warned that restoring a deleted vote would be a difficult process.
He urged constituency coordinators and booth-level agents to closely monitor every stage of the revision exercise.
Meanwhile, YSRCP state official spokesperson Rachamallu Siva Prasad Reddy met Proddatur Tahsildar Bhaskar and sought an immediate and comprehensive inquiry into the ongoing SIR process.
He alleged that the coalition government was misusing the exercise to manipulate the electoral rolls.
He claimed that information had emerged suggesting that the ITDP application was being used to identify YSRCP supporters and facilitate the deletion of their votes.
He urged the authorities to take immediate corrective action to protect the integrity of the electoral process.
Former Deputy Chief Minister Amzath Basha reportedly found that his name, along with those of all his family members, was missing from the 2002 electoral rolls.
The names of residents from four consecutive houses were also allegedly missing from the legacy records.