House of Representatives Suffers 27 Slender Defeats in Districts with Elevated Voting Numbers, According to Leader of the Opposition Umang Singhar
Large-scale Voter List Irregularities Alleged in Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections
There have been allegations of significant voter list irregularities during the 2023 Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, primarily raised by the Congress party. The key points include:
- Evidence cited: The Congress leader, Umang Singhar, alleged that between August and October 2023, about 16 lakh (1.6 million) voters were added in a short period, equating to roughly 26,000 new voters daily. This increase is seen as abnormal and suspicious compared to earlier months.
- Unremoved duplicate entries: The Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission had issued an order on December 2, 2022, to remove approximately 851,564 fake or duplicate voter entries. However, no public report on deletion was made available.
- Data transparency concerns: The Congress has accused the Election Commission (EC) of non-transparency, including withholding voter data even under Right to Information requests.
- Demands for transparency: The Congress demanded freezing the final voter list before elections, getting political parties’ signatures on it, and releasing data in machine-readable formats (CSV) rather than PDFs to enable independent scrutiny.
- Impact of irregularities: The Congress claims these irregularities resulted in a "fake mandate" benefiting the BJP, which won 163 seats compared to Congress’s 66. The alleged "vote theft" affected at least 27 assembly seats.
- Response and ongoing investigations: The Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission has not publicly responded to these allegations or commented officially. The BJP and state minister Vishwas Sarang have denied the allegations, calling them baseless and criticizing Congress for raising the issue 20 months after the elections. No formal election petitions or legal challenges by Congress to the election results have been reported so far; allegations have been primarily raised via press conferences and media.
In summary, the primary evidence of voter list irregularities is based on unusually large voter roll increases and unremoved duplicate entries per Congress claims, with demands for transparency and data access for independent verification. However, electoral authorities have not publicly investigated or confirmed these claims, and the ruling BJP rejects the allegations as politically motivated. No formal legal proceedings challenging the election on these grounds are documented as ongoing.
[1] Times of India [2] Hindustan Times [3] India Today [4] The Print [5] The Indian Express
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