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The Congress in Karnataka on Thursday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, alleging he is directly responsible for a corrupt electoral practice by assigning a private entity to collect door-to-door voter information.
In a report by PTI, Congress general secretary and the party’s Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said at a press conference here that Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the civic agency, authorised a private firm in August to carry out a door-to-door survey of voters ‘free of cost’ who gathered information about their gender, mother tongue, collected voter ID and Aadhaar details.
Alleging that “the chief minister was the conduit of the electoral fraud,” he said, “there has to be an FIR against Basavaraj Bommai and he should be arrested.” The cache of data was not fed into the Garuda application of the government but into an application ‘Digital Sameeksha’ of the private firm, Surjewala charged.
Surjewala was later quoted by ANI saying, Shocking exposé reveals that those in citadels of power, incl K’taka CM, are responsible for theft of voter data, fraud & impersonation. CM Bommai, his officials, govt officers, BBMP people & State Election authority are partners in crime in trampling democracy.
