AAP Alleges Vote Manipulation, BJP Calls Claims Baseless

• The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused the central government of avoiding a discussion on electoral roll revisions.
• AAP leaders alleged widespread vote manipulation in Delhi and other states.
• The Delhi BJP dismissed the allegations as an attempt to justify an electoral defeat.

GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 13th Aug: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has accused the BJP-led central government of avoiding a discussion in Parliament on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to hide its alleged role in large-scale vote manipulation. The Delhi BJP has dismissed the charges as baseless, claiming they are an attempt to justify an electoral defeat.

Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh claimed that the Modi government’s refusal to debate the SIR issue indicates its involvement. He alleged that there were multiple votes registered at Union ministers’ addresses and that BJP workers had petitioned to delete thousands of votes in Delhi. Singh also stated that similar electoral fraud occurred in Maharashtra, Haryana, and Bihar. AAP’s Delhi unit president Saurabh Bharadwaj accused the Election Commission of deliberately obstructing access to voter lists.

In response, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva countered that opposition parties were making “baseless accusations” to undermine democratic institutions after losing elections. He said that while AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal had accepted the election results as the people’s mandate, its leaders were now alleging rigging “just to stay in the news.” Sachdeva attributed the AAP’s loss in the Delhi assembly elections to “misgovernance, corruption, and inefficiency.”