GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 20th Sept: The political storm over alleged “vote theft” reignited in the national capital on Friday, with Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accusing the Election Commission of colluding with the BJP during the 2025 Delhi Assembly polls. The fresh charges coincide with Delhi’s upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, putting electoral integrity back in the spotlight.
AAP’s Sharp Allegations
Addressing a press conference, Delhi AAP chief Saurabh Bhardwaj said repeated warnings to the Election Commission (EC) earlier this year were ignored. “The Election Commission is doing ‘vote chori’ in collusion with the BJP,” he alleged.
Bhardwaj said former Chief Minister Atishi wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner on January 8 and 9, followed by a letter from Arvind Kejriwal, citing fraud in the New Delhi constituency. “Last month, we even filed an RTI seeking details of action taken. The EC replied that the action ‘cannot be shared publicly’,” he added.
AAP claims that relocation of government quarters, demolition drives and mass shifting of families were exploited to alter voter rolls in New Delhi, where BJP’s Parvesh Verma defeated Kejriwal in one of the most high-profile contests of 2025.
BJP Counters
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva dismissed the allegations as political theatrics. “Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Saurabh Bhardwaj and Satyendar Jain are suffering from phobia. If Kejriwal had visited these areas, he would know how many government quarters were vacated and rebuilt, and how many families shifted,” he said.
Sachdeva added that those who moved could have reapplied for voter IDs, and challenged AAP to file an affidavit with the Election Commission if it had evidence.
National Political Echo
The controversy has widened beyond Delhi. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi earlier accused the BJP of manipulating voter lists in several states, citing Karnataka’s Mahadevapura segment where he claimed over one lakh votes were “stolen” during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Gandhi alleged duplicate entries, invalid voter IDs and mass deletions, calling the ongoing voter roll revision an “institutionalised chori” aimed at disenfranchising Opposition voters.
The Election Commission has rejected these accusations as “deplorable” and “baseless,” while the BJP has labelled them excuses for electoral defeats.
