MH-NIRUPAM-VOTERS

Nirupam alleges lakhs of bogus voters registered in Maha

Mumbai, Jan 16 (PTI)Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay

Nirupam alleged Wednesday that there were lakhs of bogus

voters registered in Mumbai and Maharashtra.

"There are several (genuine) voters who are claiming

not to have received their voter IDs. These are either

Congress voters or belong to the minority community," he said.

Of the 638 voter IDs from the Magathane assembly

constituency which he scrutinised, only 182 belonged to

genuine voters, while of the 552 voter IDs he got from the

Dindoshi constituency, only 290 were genuine, the Congress

leader claimed.

"There are around 15,000 to 20,000 bogus voters

registered in every assembly segment and around 1.25 lakh to

1.5 lakh bogus voters in every parliamentary constituency," he

alleged.

"These voters are only present on paper. Mumbai should

be protected from these voters in the upcoming polls," he

said.

Voter IDs should be delivered at the voter's doorstep

so as to check genuineness of the ID, he said.

He will requestthe Election Commissionto postpone

publication of the electoral roll beyond January 31 as it is

impossible to delete such a huge number of fake voters by

month-end, he said.

(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)