42 lakh duplicate voters in Rajasthan poll list: Congress

The Congress has alleged large scale irregularities in the electoral rolls in Rajasthan, and said that there were over 42 lakh duplicate entries in the voter list. A delegation of the party, comprising Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot, Vivek Tankha, Jitendra Singh, CP Joshi, Mohan Prakash and other senior leaders, lodged a complaint with the Election Commission, urging the watchdog to cull out the discrepancies.

Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee president Sachin Pilot said the EC must act as the findings casts great aspersions on the process of elections. "While the government has declared the total number of voters in MP, no such data is made public in Rajasthan. The belief is that the BJP wants to keep aside an elbow room to allow for more bogus voters," he said.

The Congress alleged that an analysis of voters by an organisation ThePolitics.in has thrown up findings that point at discrepancies. This includes over 42,08,841 duplicate voter IDs having the same name, gender and relative's name. There were also 10.4 lakh duplicate entries of the same date of birth, and over 91,000 IDs with the same EPIC ID.

The findings also showed that the spurt in new voters was as much as 70 lakh in the last five years, with families with more than 10 members in the families being as high as 1,42,36,669.