BJP won Meerut with thin margin. Its 2 booths have 27% fake voters
UP CEO points to lack of mechanism to get rid of ‘such voters’, says he ‘will request the EC to get it fixed’.
This is the third part of our investigation into discrepancies in voter lists. Read all of them here.
Do you see a complete address when you look at your voter ID card? If you are in Meerut, you probably won’t.
Unless you believe “Uttar Pradesh” is an address. Or “jhuggi”. Or “naya”. Empty columns or words like these were the addresses of 86 voters in the voter lists of booth 305 of the Meerut Cantonment assembly, which falls under the Meerut Lok Sabha seat. In the same booth, around 240 voters are registered with RHA Colony as their address. The colony does not exist.
In Meerut, a total of 61,365 voters were deleted and over 1 lakh added to the voter lists before the BJP’s Arun Govil defeated the Samajwadi Party’s Sunita Verma with a margin of over 10,000 votes. But Newslaundry found odd trends when we scanned 2,042 booths across the constituency.
For example, in just two booths, there were 336 fake voters.
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