Gonda: The Samajwadi Party (SP) has raised objections to alleged attempts to remove the names of legitimate voters from electoral rolls in the 299-Tarabganj Assembly constituency in Gonda district through fabricated complaints.
A delegation of senior party leaders and office-bearers, including former SP candidate Ram Bhajan Chaubey, submitted a memorandum to the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Tarabganj, on Tuesday, demanding a high-level investigation into the complaints filed through Form 11 during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
In the memorandum, signed by SP state executive committee members Vijay Kumar Singh alias Tintu Singh and Krishna Kumar Tiwari alias KT Tiwari, along with vice-presidents Dinesh Yadav and Vivek Kumar Singh alias Baba, the party alleged that certain individuals were using the revision process out of political rivalry to get the names of genuine voters deleted.
The leaders claimed that some of the targeted voters had been residing in the constituency for generations and were legally entitled to remain on the electoral rolls.
The SP demanded that every complaint submitted through Form 11 be thoroughly investigated and that no voter’s name be removed until the verification process is completed.
The party also sought appropriate legal action against complainants if their allegations are found to be false, citing Section 31 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950.
Former SP district panchayat member Manoj Chaubey, who shared details of the memorandum, said party workers were prepared to oppose any attempt to delete large numbers of voters’ names through fabricated complaints in the Tarabganj constituency.
Several party workers and office-bearers, including Devmani Tiwari, Ankur Mani Tiwari, Rintu Singh, Dharmendra Tiwari, Saurabh Pandey, Ankit Pandey, Dilip Pandey, Pramod Chaubey and Rohit Chaubey, were present during the submission of the memorandum.
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