Karnataka will continue with probe into efforts to illegally delete names of genuine voters, says Chief Minister
Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar announced that the state will continue investigating the illegal deletion of voter names from electoral rolls. He accused the BJP of orchestrating a conspiracy to disenfranchise voters to influence election outcomes.
Why it matters
Highlights significant political conflict regarding election integrity and the administration of voter rolls in India.
After taking part in a protest by the AICC in Delhi against the Special Intensive Revision, Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar said the State would continue with the inquiry into how there were efforts to illegally snatch away the voting rights of people, including minorities and poor people by deleting their names from the electoral rolls.
Speaking to presspersons after the protest in Delhi, Mr. Shivakumar said the Election Commission of India, yielding to the struggle by the Congress and other Opposition parties at the national level, had asked officials to conduct a drive to help include those people whose names had been deleted from the electoral rolls. “Lets see what they will do,” he said.
He declared that the Congress would not stop till justice was provided to those whose names had been deleted illegally from the electoral rolls.
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