NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday alleged “large-scale voter list manipulation” in the country, with BJP securing addition of new names ahead of elections. The party said there were lakhs of “bogus” voters in Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi, where BJP recently won assembly elections, and called it a “grave threat to democracy”. Congress has planned to undertake ‘Samvidhan Bachao Rashtriya Yatra’, which will be a relay yatra of national leaders across the states.
At a marathon meeting of Congress general secretaries and state in-charges, Kharge said, “You must have noticed that nowadays, our supporters’ names are being deleted from the voters list or shifted to neighbouring booths. BJP adds new names just before the elections. This malpractice must be stopped at all costs.”
Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have asked Congress’s state in-charges to stay “alert” about the voters’ lists, and emphasised continuous scrutiny of additions and deletions.
Congress decided to retrain the decision-making focus on the key building block of the organisation – district congress committees. Kharge and Rahul urged the managers to go down to the last level to unearth talent & committed workers. tnn