The Uttar Pradesh Congress on Saturday submitted a letter to the Election Commission (EC), alleging that voters with discrepancies between their details and their EPIC were asked to fill Form-8 during a special voter campaign.
The party said since the discrepancy occurred after the final list under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process was released in April this year, it was the EC’s responsibility to rectify it. From the above incident, it appears that all the officers and employees of the Election Commission are blaming their entire mistake on the back dated Form-8 and they want to blame the voters by showing the receipt so that their officers and colleagues can be protected,” Khan said.
But this was being done in order to cover up the Election Commission’s well-planned conspiracy of vote theft and to save the said guilty officers and employees,” said Anas Khan, coordinator-cum-signatory dealing with Election Commission-related matters for the UP Congress. Following this revelation, the Congress highlighted this issue, Anas Khan said.
“Under the special campaign, a vote jodo camp was organised at every booth for the new and left out voters in SIR. It is a matter of concern that during the said programme, at booth numbers 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233 and 411, 412, 413, 415 and many other booths under 127-Pilibhit Assembly Constituency, the BLOs, were making the voters with discrepancies in their voter list against the EPIC card, including change in name, fill up Form 8 brought by the BLOs themselves,” said the UP Congress in its letter to the EC.
“These forms were pre-filled with correct details by the BLOs and the voters were called just to sign the form,” said Kumud Gangwar, the whistle blower in this case and former general secretary of the UP Congress.
