Voters in a voting station in the Daryaganj area during the elections of the Delhi Assembly, in New Delhi, on February 5, 2025. | Photo credit: PTI
As Delhi voters cast their vote for the Assembly surveys on Wednesday (February 5, 2025), accusations of false voting arose in some parts of the national capital, including Selampur and Kasturba Nagar.
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The high drama developed in Selampur when a BJP leader accused some people who used burkas to try to vote fraudulently. However, the police denied any false vote in the area.
In Kasturba Nagar, police sources said two men allegedly tried to vote fraudulently. The two men were trapped and are being interrogated, they said.
Meanwhile, AAP candidate of Greater Kailash, Saurabh Bharadwaj, said that people were being prevented from voting in Chiag Dilli and the leader of the Senior Manish Sisodia party alleged that the money was distributed from a house in Jungpura.
In Seelampur, after the fake voting accusations by the BJP, more leaders of the party began to slogaranering outside a voting cabin.
The Delhi police, however, dismissed the charges that point to the security deployed in the area. Additional police and paramilitary forces were also deployed, they said.
Safdar Ali, resident of Selampur PTI That BJP candidate Anil Gaur came and said people voted fraudulently.
“We asked him how possible when there are several layers of verification. The officials are reviewing the voting identification cards of all and allowing only valid voters within the stand.
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“Later it went and the situation is now normal here due to administration and security personnel,” said Ali.
Meanwhile, the leader of the AAP, Saurabh Bharadwaj, said that the police had locked the ChiG Dilli area, preventing people from voting. He shared a video in X showing a woman sitting alone in an authorickshaw near a barricade, claiming that she was deliberately placed to obstruct access to the voting station.
In another video, AAP’s candidate in Jungpura Manish Sisodia claimed that the money was being distributed from a house in the area. He asked the service police to make a raid at the house.
In Kasturba Nagar, the police received information that two men allegedly tried to vote falsely. The incidents supposedly occurred in Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in the Andrews Ganj area. They were caught by the Delhi police and are currently being interrogated, police sources said.
Police received another PCR call from a woman who claimed that someone had vote in her name when she went to her grouping stand.
The Police, however, discovered that another woman with a similar name, who lived in the claimant’s house as a tenant, had cast the vote.
After verification, the president allowed them to vote, police said.
Published – February 5, 2025 02:37 pm ist
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