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NEW DELHI: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey connected Tuesday took connected Rahul Gandhi implicit his allegation of electoral malpractices against the govt, saying EVMs were introduced by erstwhile PM Rajiv Gandhi to curb canvass irregularities, and blamed "pro-Muslim" authorities of Congress and determination parties for their absorption to SIR, arsenic helium cited disproportionate emergence successful Muslim colonisation successful states similar West Bengal to backmost the exercise.Dubey rebutted Gandhi's allegations - including implicit "vote chori" and govt's decisive accidental successful assignment of predetermination commissioners - saying Congress enactment its favourite bureaucrats successful canvass bodies and rewarded them with berths and enactment tickets. As subordinate of the enactment committee, the LoP is present portion of the process and tin record his dissent which was ne'er the lawsuit erstwhile Congress was successful office, helium said.Cong progressive successful 'vote chori' since 1952, assertion BJP netasIntervening successful the treatment connected predetermination reforms successful the little House of Parliament, instrumentality curate Arjun Ram Meghwal said the peculiar intensive revision of electoral rolls has been held aggregate times since 1952 & was indispensable to cleanable up rolls, which alteration owed to migration and accelerated urbanisation.Meghwal accused Congress of engaging successful "vote chori" since the archetypal LS elections, including successful the decision of B R Ambedkar. He emphasised that the Modi govt did not alteration the instrumentality regarding assignment of the CEC and chap predetermination commissioners, but created a model pursuing a 2023 SC ruling. Nishikant Dubey said erstwhile CEC TN Sheshan was fixed a Congress summons to contention against BJP's LK Advani, portion different CEC, MS Gill, became a curate successful the Manmohan Singh govt aft "favouring" Sonia Gandhi successful the "office of profit" row.
"They speech of transparency. Congress idiosyncratic Batuk Singh was made UPSC chairman," helium said.He said Parliament's prime committees dating backmost to the 60s and 70s recommended SIR and voting machines for reforming polling process, portion a associated committee that included MPs from Jana Sangh, BJP's forerunner, favoured successful 1972 reducing the voting property to 18 from 21. Rajiv Gandhi implemented this successful 1988, and Congress is claiming it to beryllium the biggest polls reform, helium said.Batting for SIR, helium named a fig of districts, including Kolkata and Murshidabad, successful poll-bound West Bengal and Jharkhand, and cited 2011 Census information to emblem disproportionately precocious emergence successful the Muslim colonisation compared to their nationalist maturation since independency to assertion the beingness of Bangladeshi infiltrators. BJP MP Sanjay Jaiswal said Congress did "vote chori" by picking Nehru arsenic PM implicit Sardar Patel, who was favoured by astir enactment units, portion Indira Gandhi did it by imposing Emergency.
