New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission of India (EC) of colluding to delete thousands of its supporters’ names from electoral rolls ahead of the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections.
At a press conference, AAP’s Delhi state president Saurabh Bharadwaj said the party had collected documentary evidence of fraudulent applications used to strike genuine voters from key constituencies, including former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s New Delhi seat.
He referred to a January 5, 2025 letter from then CM Atishi to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar highlighting a surge of 6,166 voter deletion applications in Kejriwal’s constituency within 20 days. According to Bharadwaj, the constituency lost over 42,000 voters between 2020 and October 2024, with thousands more deletion requests filed in December.
AAP also alleged impersonation, citing cases where residents such as Tarun Kumar Chautala and Usha Devi found multiple deletion applications in their names, though they had never applied for removal. Complaints filed by Atishi and Kejriwal in January seeking criminal investigations were acknowledged but not pursued, the party claimed.
Bharadwaj accused the EC of closing files without inquiry and shielding details under “personal information.” He criticised current CEC Gyanesh Kumar and said the Commission’s responses resembled “social media trolling.”
AAP announced it will release its evidence on social media and WhatsApp groups, saying the silence of the EC proves a conspiracy. Neither the BJP nor the Election Commission has formally responded to the latest charges.
