On Thursday, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh responded to allegations from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accusing him of attempting to rig the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections through double voting.
Singh dismissed the accusations, calling them baseless and part of the BJP’s campaign of spreading lies.
Addressing a press conference in Delhi, the AAP MP stated, “Bharatiya Janata Party has nothing to do except spread lies. My wife has filed an application with the District Electoral Office, Sultanpur, to delete her name from there on 4 January. My mother and my father’s names are there on the voter list – except for them, neither my wife’s nor my name is there.”
“BJP is saying that my name was on the voter list of Sultanpur during the 2018 municipal elections. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s employees prepare the municipality’s list. Even after I applied for deletion of my name, if my name was there, then the responsibility lies with the employee who prepared the voter list,” Singh asserted.
Virendraa Sachdeva Demands Investigation Into Sanjay Singh’s Double Voting Claims
Earlier in the day, Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva revealed that AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh’s name appears in the voter lists of New Delhi and Tilak Nagar for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections.
He called on the Election Commission and Delhi Police to investigate these discrepancies.
Addressing a press conference, Delhi BJP President noted, “When Sanjay Singh entered Rajya Sabha in 2018, he mentioned in his affidavit that his vote is registered in the Hari Nagar assembly. At the same time, the voter list of Sultanpur municipality includes his and his family’s name. For the upcoming elections, his name is in the voter list of New Delhi and also the Tilak Nagar assemblies.”
“The Election Commission and Delhi Police should take cognizance of this. On 4 January 2024, Anita Singh claimed that her vote cut from the Sultanpur assembly. On 8 January 2024, she gave an affidavit in which she stated that her vote is registered in the Sultanpur assembly,” he added.
The Delhi Assembly elections will likely take place in February 2025, though the Election Commission has not yet confirmed the dates.
In the previous assembly elections of 2020, AAP secured a resounding victory with 62 out of 70 seats, while BJP won eight. Congress, which held power in Delhi for 15 years, failed to secure any seats in the past two elections.
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