Bengaluru: BJP's Karnataka unit on Thursday wrote to the Election commission over alleged "mass indiscrimination deletion of voters' names from the voter's list" in the state.
The party alleged that some officials are working as agents of ruling coalition governments of JD(s) and Congress.
In the letter to the Chief Electoral Officer, the BJP said: " The officials have purposefully and deliberately deleted names without any reason, just to render undue official favour to the ruling coalition party."
Claiming that names have been deleted despite people residing on the same address, the Bharatiya Janata Party in its letters demanded strict action against erring officials: " This is nothing but a dereliction of duty by the concerned officials. If strict action is not taken against such biased officials, we can't expect fair and free elections from the Election Commission."
The letter further stated that such deletion was reported to the Election Commission during the Vidhan Sabha election too but no action was taken.
"Even though during the last Vidhan Sabha Election also such deletion has taken place and the same was reported to the commission has not taken any stringent action against such officials. This is the only reason which has boosted the concerned biased officials to further delete the names of the voter," the letter read.
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BJP stated that the party will go to the court to redress the issue: " we are definitely going to the court to redress the illegality committed by the erring officials. in the places where mass deletion has taken place, repolling by giving an opportunity to the voters whose names have been illegally deleted is inevitable. therefore this Commission's interference is warranted".
