BENGALURU: The city police have registered an FIR against two BJP booth-level agents (BLAs) and others for allegedly submitting fraudulent Form-7 applications to delete 5,698 voters from the Jayanagar Assembly constituency.
The case was filed on Monday night at Jayanagar police station on a complaint by Karnataka Mahila Congress president Sowmya Reddy. According to the FIR, the malpractice occurred between June 16 and October 5 during the summary revision of rolls.
Sowmya Reddy alleged that BJP BLAs Ramakrishna and Yogesh, along with others, filed Form-7s falsely claiming voters had shifted, targeting minority communities and voters seen as unfavourable to the BJP. The complaint states the accused misused the identity details of residents Ramesh and his wife Roopa to file objections without consent, and submitted applications with forged signatures to BLO Lokesh at Jayanagar 4th Block.
Police have booked them under Sections 61(2)(b), 217(b), 319(2), 336(2), 340(2) r/w 3(5) of BNS, 2023, and investigation is underway.
Sowmya Reddy Claims Thousands of Voters Targeted Through Form 7 Applications, Files Police Complaint
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#Karnataka Pradesh Mahila Congress President Sowmya Reddy on Monday lodged a complaint at the Jayanagar Police Station in #Bengaluru, alleging large-scale irregularities in voter deletions in the Jayanagar Assembly constituency (No. 173).
In her complaint, Reddy alleged that 4,327 voters in Ward No. 171 (Gurrapanapalya) had been removed from the electoral roll, while a total of 5,698 #Form7 applications seeking deletion of voters had reportedly been submitted across the constituency.
According to the complaint, the deletions were allegedly carried out at the request of Lokesh, who is stated to be associated with #BJP leader C.K. Ramamurthy. Reddy further alleged that pre-printed Form 7 applications were used to facilitate the deletions.
The complaint also names Yogesh, who is alleged to have worked with C.K. Ramamurthy, accusing him of involvement in irregular voting-related activities.
Sowmya Reddy stated that former corporator Rizwan Nawab and the concerned Booth Level Officers (#BLOs) were present when the alleged irregularities came to light.
She said an inquiry into the matter had already been conducted by Returning Officer (RO) Eshwar Naidu and Assistant Returning Officer (ARO) Rekha. Claiming to possess video and photographic evidence supporting the allegations,Sowmya Reddy urged the police to verify the records, examine the inquiry findings, and take appropriate legal action if any violations are found.After lodging the complaint,Sowmya Reddy released a video statement elaborating on the allegations.She said the issue surfaced during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (#SIR) process, for which September 28 was the last date.”A few people contacted us during the process. That is when we discovered that 4,327 Form 7 applications had been submitted in a single ward. Across the Jayanagar constituency, 5,698 pre-printed Form 7 applications were submitted for voter deletions,” she alleged.
Sowmya Reddy further claimed that most of the deleted voters belonged to minority and #Dalit communities and were people who had traditionally supported the #Congress party.”We have filed a complaint with video evidence. In the audio clips, the individuals have allegedly admitted that they are from the BJP office and are working as BLA-2. Elections should be free and fair. We urge citizens to remain vigilant and protect their voting rights,” she said.
The police are yet to issue an official response to the allegations.
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Earlier, on October 1, Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, accompanied by six Cabinet ministers, staged a protest outside the office of Chief Electoral Officer V Anbukumar.
Shivakumar and the ministers also met Anbukumar and demanded immediate registration of an FIR and a time-bound criminal investigation into the alleged bulk submission of fraudulent Form 7 objections during the ongoing SIR process.
The Karnataka government has alleged mass deletion of voters during the electoral-roll revision and sought action over the alleged irregularities.
Meanwhile, Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy also criticised the protest, alleging that the Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues had cancelled the day’s Cabinet meeting and launched a “political farce”. He claimed that concerns over alleged irregularities in the SIR process had been raised earlier as well and questioned why the Karnataka government had remained silent at that time.
Kumaraswamy said, “The Chief Minister and his cabinet colleagues have cancelled today’s cabinet meeting and started a political farce. Today they met the State Election Commissioner and alleged that injustice has happened in the SIR process, that BJP workers have committed irregularities and stolen votes, and they themselves are sitting on a dharna demanding that people be arrested immediately and FIRs be filed. We ourselves had complained in the initial stage that in many taluk centres, in choultries and in houses, people were gathering in groups and committing irregularities in the SIR process. Why were you silent at that time? Where had you gone? Now you are saying irregularities have happened.
He alleged that the protest was being held at the direction of leaders from Delhi and accused the state government of using the SIR issue to divert public attention from other alleged irregularities in Karnataka. (ANI)
