Special Investigation Team finds attempts to delete nearly 7,000 Congress votes in Aland, Karnataka. Six suspects involved, with Rs 80 paid per deleted vote. Electoral intervention prevented loss
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The Special Investigation Team probing the “vote chori” (vote theft) in Aland Assembly segment in 2023 Assembly elections in Karnataka has discovered that “attempts” were made to delete votes and zeroed in on at least six suspects involved in the scam.
Top sources in the Criminal Investigation Department said that for every successfully deleted vote, the suspects were paid R80. There were requests to delete 6994 votes.
Aland is in Kalaburagi in North Karnataka, the home district of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior Congress MLA BR Patil represents the Assembly seat.
It was Patil and Kharge’s son Priyank Kharge, a minister and Chittapur MLA, who unearthed the vote deletion attempts and alerted the Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer.
According to Patil, applications were filed to delete 6994 ‘Congress votes’ comprising Dalits and minorities. The deletion was stopped after the CEO ordered status quo.
Recently, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi held a press conference in New Delhi detailing how the “vote chori” have been taking place and cited the example of Aland. Patil said had these votes deleted he would have surely lost the election.
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