SIR: BJP BLA Sought Form-7 Deletions, Verification Against 7,561 Names in Ballari; FIR Registered
The FIR is the sixth in Karnataka over alleged misuse of Form-7, and police booked the accused under a public mischief provision.
- On Thursday, police registered an FIR against T. Srinivas Mothkur, Opposition leader of the Ballari City Corporation and BJP BLA-1, for allegedly attempting to delete 7,561 voters from the Ballari City Assembly electoral rolls.
- Mothkur claimed electors were "absent or had shifted," but Ballari City Corporation election authorities rejected the applications, stating his claims "were not supported" by documentation.
- Congress BLA Goutham S filed the police complaint after Mothkur repeatedly attempted to bypass rules limiting bulk Form-7 submissions to 10 applications per day to a single Booth Level Officer.
- This case marks the sixth FIR registered in Karnataka regarding alleged Form-7 misuse, with three previous cases naming Bharatiya Janata Party members as the accused.
- Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer V Anbu Kumar subsequently directed officials to investigate reports of non-genuine bulk applications, warning that legal action would be taken against anyone found filing them.
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SIR: BJP BLA sought Form-7 deletions, verification against 7,561 names in Ballari; FIR registered
Claiming that more than 7,500 electors were either “absent or had shifted,” a BJP-affiliated Booth Level Agent (BLA) attempted to first fill Form-7 applications and, after his claims were not accepted by the election authorities, again sought “revision” of their names by submitting objections, even though these electors figured in the draft electoral roll of Ballari City Assembly constituency.
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98.08 percent of those targeted for voter suppression belong to minority groups.
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