'Lakhs of bogus voters registered in Maharashtra, genuine voters have not received voter ID,' claims Congress' Sanjay Nirupam
Indian National Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam has made startling claims where he said that more than a lakh voters in Maharashtra are ‘bogus.’
The Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam has said that there are certain voters who have not received the voter identification cards yet and more and more bogus voters are coming into the scene.
Nirupam claimed that “There are several (genuine) voters who are claiming not to have received their voter IDs. These are either Congress voters or belong to the minority community.”
The Congress party has claimed that out of the 638 voter IDs from the Magathane assembly constituency which he scrutinised, only 182 belonged to genuine voters, while of the 552 voter IDs he got from the Dindoshi constituency, only 290 were genuine.
Sanjay Nirupam has made further claims that “There are around 15,000 to 20,000 bogus voters registered in every assembly segment and around 1.25 lakh to 1.5 lakh bogus voters in every parliamentary constituency.”
The Voter ID’s should now be delivered at the doorstep of the voters and to avoid any other bogus works, it must be a precedent said Sanjay Nirupam.
He further claimed that “These voters are only present on paper. Mumbai should be protected from these voters in the upcoming polls.”
He has said that he would request the Election Commission to look into the matter at the earliest and postpone the publication of electoral roll beyond January 31 as it is impossible to delete such a huge number of fake voters by month-end.
First published: 17 January 2019, 15:31 IST