"She is 35 years old and not 124 years old. This is not our fault. The one who made the card must have made the mistake. Only they know what happened, how it happened and why it happened," Tej Pratap Singh, Minta Devi's father-in-law, told ANI.
Election Commission of India on Thursday strongly responded to the "vote theft" allegations, stating that the attempt to "create a false narrative" against the poll body is a "direct attack" on the Indian voters and "assault" on the integrity of election staff.
Election Commission of India (ECI) has received a total of 23,557 claims and objections over the draft voter list after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Bihar, out of which 741 complaints have been disposed, a press note said on Thursday.
Amid its ongoing protest against alleged vote theft, Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that the party will launch the 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' from Bihar on August 17, calling it a fight to protect democracy, the constitution, and the principle
Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, on Thursday accused MLC Dinesh Singh of possessing two voter ID cards amid the ongoing allegations on the Election Commission of "voter fraud."
Khera highlighted the disparity in the time taken to obtain similar data, saying it took the Congress four to six months to collect information for one Assembly constituency, while the BJP had secured data for two parliamentary seats almost immediately.
Thackeray said these cases show that "vote theft" has been happening and accused the Election Commission of evading accountability after being exposed.
"Electoral rolls are prepared in accordance with law. Any correction, deletion or inclusion in Electoral Roll can always be made as per procedure laid down in law. No one can force to remove YOUR NAME from final Electoral Rolls without following the procedure laid down in law," ECI posted
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said that asking for only one document would be anti-voter, but allowing multiple options benefits electors.
A group of voters met the Congress MP and shared how they were declared "dead" by the Election Commission and how their names were removed from the voter list after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
"You mention her as a 124-year-old in voter list and don't apologise for it. We, who are bringing your misdeeds out in the light, should apologise for it? This is a Government which handcuffs the person with whom a crime occurs and makes them apologise. They hug perpetrators," Khera told ANI