Jharkhand SIR: BJP agent held for submitting bulk forms to delete Muslim voters, says report
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A booth-level agent of the Bharatiya Janata Party was arrested and later released on bail in Jharkhand’s Godda district in a case in which he has been accused of submitting bulk forms seeking the deletion of Muslim voters, The Indian Express reported.
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The forms were submitted as part of the special intensive revision exercise currently underway in the state.
The agent, Vinay Kumar Mandal, was arrested on September 3, but was released on bail hours later, the newspaper quoted Godda Muffasil Police Station Inspector Anand Sah as saying.
A complaint against Mandal was filed by a voter named Mukarram Ansari, who alleged that the BJP booth-level agent submitted about 200 Form 7 applications seeking the deletion of voters – all of them at a single booth, and all of them allegedly against Muslims.
Ansari said in his complaint that all those against whom the applications were filed before the booth-level officer were genuine voters, The Indian Express reported. The booth-level officer, Sajida Bibi, said that her own name and that of her husband were on the list of applications submitted by Mandal.
The BJP’s booth-level agent was quoted as saying by the newspaper that he went to submit the forms to the officer after being told to do so. He claimed that Bibi had initially agreed to take...