Owner of UP minister Asim Arun's camp office has 2 voter IDs, alleges SP leader

Kannauj (UP), Aug 27 (PTI) Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Shashima Singh Dohare on Wednesday accused Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Social Welfare Asim Arun of being linked to fake voters, claiming that the owner of his camp office has two voter IDs.

Two days ago, Arun, a Kannauj MLA, released a video alleging that SP's former block pramukh Nawab Singh Yadav and his brother Neelu Yadav had duplicate votes.

On Tuesday, Kannauj BJP district president Veer Singh Bhadauria submitted an affidavit to the additional magistrate regarding this matter.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav is the Lok Sabha MP from Kannauj.

Hitting back at the UP minister, Dohare alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had created fake voters to manipulate elections. She would soon make public the list of such voters around the minister's office and submit an affidavit to the Election Commission, she claimed.

"The BJP has got votes made for people who neither reside in Kannauj nor live here. Even the family members of the owner of the house where the minister stays have two voter IDs -- one in gram Haudapurwa and another in Mirgawa," Dohare alleged.

The SP leader said that as the booth in-charge, she had submitted a request to delete duplicate voter entries but no action was taken by the administration. "It appears the administration is under pressure and supporting voter fraud. This needs investigation," she said.

The claims and counterclaims come at a time of widespread allegations of irregularities in the electoral roll list, in the wake of a Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls being carried out in poll-bound Bihar. PTI COR KSS KSS