Sowmya Reddy complains over alleged deletion of voters in Jayanagar Assembly constituency
Former Jayanagar MLA Sowmya Reddy has filed a police complaint alleging the illegal deletion of over 4,000 voters from electoral rolls. She claims the deletions were orchestrated by political opponents and has offered video evidence to support her allegations.
Why it matters
Allegations of electoral roll manipulation strike at the core of democratic integrity and can lead to significant political instability and legal challenges.
Karnataka Pradesh Mahila Congress president and former Jayanagar MLA Sowmya Reddy has lodged a complaint with the police alleging irregularities in the deletion of voters from electoral rolls in the Jayanagar Assembly constituency.
In her complaint on Monday, Ms. Reddy alleged that more than 4,327 voters had been removed from the electoral rolls in Ward no. 171 (Gurrapanapalya) alone, while 5,698 Form-7 applications seeking deletion of names had reportedly been submitted across the constituency.
She alleged that the Form-7 applications were submitted at the request of a person named Lokesh, who, according to the complaint, was working for BJP leader and Ward no. 171 representative C.K. Ramamurthy.
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