Investigation revealed that the discrepancies occurred during the processing of Form 6 submitted in Jan
Lucknow : Days after 158 bizarre entries surfaced in the electoral rolls of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council’s Graduates’ and Teachers’ constituencies, another discrepancy has emerged in Azamgarh , where 13 entries in an Assembly constituency’s voter list carried the name Vikas Yadav in Hindi, despite belonging to different individuals, including women. The investigation followed allegations raised by Samajwadi Party at a news conference on Oct 15, claiming that the name Vikas Yadav appeared 10 times in the electoral roll of Assembly constituency 347-Azamgarh. However, the district election officer’s investigation identified 13 such entries. Of the 13 entries identified during the investigation, two had already been deleted. The remaining 11 belonged to different individuals residing in separate villages in Azamgarh. Form 8 applications have now been obtained to correct the names and other particulars of the remaining 10 voters.
Only one was the genuine Vikas Yadav. Taking note of the irregularities, Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa on Saturday ordered action against nine election personnel, including five booth-level officers (BLOs), a computer assistant and three supervisory officers.
However, this voter was separate from the 13 entries in Azamgarh, and the report did not identify the Gorakhpur entry as fraudulent.
The remaining entries belonged to different voters,” Rinwa said. Investigators also identified another voter with the same name and father’s name in Gorakhpur’s Chauri Chaura Assembly constituency. “The genuine Vikas Yadav submitted only one application. The Azamgarh district election officer has also been directed to scrutinise electoral rolls across all Assembly constituencies in the district and submit a report within a week.