Electrical Fraud Case!
The Congress demanded the resignation of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, in Karnataka today by claiming that he is behind this corrupt electoral practice by assigning a private entity to collect voter information through door-to-door.
At a press conference, Congress general secretary and the party’s Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said, in Bengaluru that a private firm in August to conduct the door-to-door survey of voters which is ‘free of cost’ to gathered information about their gender, mother tongue, collected voter ID and Aadhaar details by, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the civic agency.
“The Chief Minister was the conduit of the electoral fraud,” he said, “there has to be an FIR against Basavaraj Bommai and he should be arrested.”
‘Digital Sameeksha’ of the private firm, The cache of data was not fed into the Garuda application of the government but into an application, Mr Surjewala charged.
Hndreds of Booth Level Officers (BLO), also appointed by firm which technically should be a government appointed persons, said Mr Surjewala, adding in it these BLOs were also given identity cards resembling as if they are government employees.
Mr Surjewala questioned that, We want to know who permitted a private entity to conduct the survey on behalf of the BBMP? Who recommended the government to give such contract to a private entity and why the antecedents of the contractor was not checked?”
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