"Making fabricated allegations has become Arvind Kejriwal's nature": BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal
Dec 06, 2024
New Delhi [India], December 7 : BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal on Friday came down heavily after AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal accused BJP of 'trying to cut votes' from voter list ahead of Delhi elections, saying that making "false and fabricated" allegations has become his nature.
"Making false and fabricated allegations has become Arvind Kejriwal's nature. Not only Arvind Kejriwal but all the leaders of Aam Aadmi Party are engaged in creating false narratives because they can see that they are going to lose the Delhi Assembly elections, so they want to divert people's attention by making such false allegations but they will not succeed. The people of Delhi know this very well," Khandelwal told ANI.
Earlier, Kejriwal alleged that the BJP had submitted an application to the Election Commission of India to cut votes of 11,000 people, citing that either these people have shifted or passed away. Kejriwal added that AAP randomly checked 500 people from the list and found that 372 people are still living there.
"BJP has given application to cut votes in their letterhead. They had already given applications to cut votes of 11,000 people, in the last 1-1.5 months and that process is underway. In applications, it is said that these 11,018 people have either shifted or passed away. For us, to check all these 11,000 applications so we checked 500 randomly. Among these 500, 372 were found to be staying there only (at their address). They haven't shifted anywhere," Kejriwal said.
Kejriwal claimed that most of the voters in the list are AAP voters.
"75 percent of their list is troublesome. When we inquired, maximum of these voters turned out to be AAP voters. If you get 6% of votes cut from one assembly constituency then what is the point of holding elections?" Kejriwal said.
Kejriwal emphasised that casting votes is fundamental rights of citizens which BJP and ECI is attempting to 'snatch away' from people.
"This is a threat to democracy, people's votes are being cut. It is the fundamental right of the people to cast their vote and choose their government but BJP and Election Commission are snatching this right of the people," Kejriwal said.
The Assembly polls in Delhi are expected to be held in early 2025. AAP won 62 out of the 70 seats in the 2020 assembly elections and BJP secured eighth seats.
