"Tejashwi Yadav is blatantly lying...": BJP's Praveen Khandelwal on RJD leader's 'name missing' from voters list claim

New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal on Sunday slammed RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav for his statement that his name was missing in the draft electoral rolls of Bihar.
"The Election Commission has clarified on this matter that Tejashwi Yadav is blatantly lying. His name is still in the same place on the list, where it was earlier," Khandelwal told ANI.
Yadav, a former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister, had made allegations against the ECI over the draft electoral rolls published on Friday, first saying that his name is missing and then stating that his EPIC number has been changed.
"If my EPIC number could be changed, then how many people's EPIC number was changed? These are the questions we are posing to the Election Commission. This is a conspiracy to cut people's names from the voter list," he alleged.
Yadav, who is the Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, alleged that his name was missing from the voter list amid the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar. "My name is not there in the electoral roll. How will I contest the elections?" Tejashwi Yadav asked.
Election Commission sources said on Saturday that Yadav's name is there in the Draft Electoral Rolls published as per special intensive revision (SIR) and no records have been found for the second EPIC number yet, noting that it is quite likely that the second EPIC (Election Photo Identity Card) was never made through an official channel.
ECI sources rejected Tejaswi Prasad's allegation that his EPIC number was changed, saying that the RJD leader used the Electoral Roll with EPIC No. RAB0456228 for filling his nomination papers on affidavit in 2020.
The sources said he was having this EPIC number even in the electoral roll in 2015, and his name with this EPIC number exists in the draft Electoral Rolls.
They said the other EPIC number - RAB2916120 has been found to be non-existent, and more than 10 years of records have been checked, and further inquiries are being made to understand "whether that is a forged document". (ANI)