The Congress party in Telangana has been fighting tooth and nail against tampering of voters’ list in the state, allegedly at the behest of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi, resulting in enrolment of bogus voters and deletion of genuine voters from the list.
It has even approached the Supreme Court to see that the deadline was extended for enrolment of new voters.
In Andhra Pradesh, too, the ruling Telugu Desam Party is under fire for allegedly tampering with the voters’ list.
Both YSR Congress party and the Jana Sena Party have started raising their voices for the alleged malpractices in the electoral list.
Recently, some persons belonging to one agency Centre for Socio Political Analysis (CSPA) conducted a pre-poll survey in old Guntur and got the names of voters who belongs to other than ruling party deleted from the list. Some locals apprehended representatives of this agency and handed them over to the police.
In a statement, Jana Sena Party president and actor Pawan Kalyan alleged that the TDP was behind this agency.
“We heard of gangs indulging in kidnapping of children. But now, we have seen kidnapping of voters. Let us see how TDP leaders reacts about the issue. Very soon our party leaders are going to complain to Election Commission about the issue," he said.
The YSRC also lodged a complaint with the Election Commission over the alleged tampering of voters’ list with the help of government programmes like Pulse Survey and Real Time Governance.
According to YSRC spokesman Ambati Rambabu, as many as 48.61 lakh voters were deleted illegally, especially in Kadapa, Chittoor and Kurnool districts.
“TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu is known for indulging in electoral malpractices. We have reliable information that anti-TDP voters were deleted from the list, as the defeat of the TDP is very much certain. The revenue department is being misused to delete anti-TDP voters,” Ambati alleged.
