Arvind Kejriwal made this allegation on Bharatiya Janata Party before Delhi Assembly elections

In a Friday accusation, Aam Aadmi Party National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal said the Bharatiya Janata Party was ‘trying to eliminate votes’ from the voter lists in preparation for the Delhi Assembly election.

Kejriwal said that the BJP had applied to the Indian Election Commission to have 11,000 votes removed, claiming that the voters had either moved or died. According to Kejriwal, the AAP randomly selected 500 individuals from the list and discovered that 372 of them were still residing there.

“On its letterhead, the BJP has applied to reduce the number of votes. In the previous one to one and a half months, they have already submitted petitions to remove 11,000 votes, and the procedure is already in progress. According to applications, 11,018 of these individuals have either moved or died. We looked at 500 applications at random in order to review all 11,000 of them. It was discovered that 372 of these 500 were just residing there (at their location). They have not changed in any way.

According to Kejriwal, the majority of the voters on the list are AAP members.
Seventy-five percent of their list is problematic. The majority of these voters were AAP members when we asked. What’s the sense of conducting elections if one assembly seat receives 6% of the total votes? Kejriwal stated.

Voting is a basic right that the BJP and ECI are trying to “snatch away” from people, Kejriwal said.
“People’s votes are being taken away, which is a danger to democracy. Voting and selecting a government are important human rights, but the BJP and Election Commission are stealing these rights,” Kejriwal said.

Early in 2025 is when Delhi’s Assembly elections are anticipated to take place. In the 2020 assembly elections, the AAP took home 62 of the 70 seats, while the BJP took home eight.