Deleted in Punjab’s special intensive revision, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha’s name is now available in Delhi’s draft roll. 

The BJP leader’s name is at serial number 747 in part 46 of the Rajinder Nagar assembly, as per Election Commission’s website. The draft roll for part 46 that was published on August 31 had ended with 746 voters. The final roll is set to be published only in November after the objections round.

Chadha was earlier registered as a voter in Punjab’s SAS Nagar constituency, better known as Mohali, and had voted from there during the 2024 Lok Sabha election. He was not part of the draft roll published in Punjab earlier in August and was marked “permanently shifted”. He had called it “vendetta”. The final roll is scheduled to be published on October 12.

This comes days after the Aam Aadmi Party and certain media reports hinted that the BJP leader was trying to get a “backdoor” entry into the voter rolls. The party repeated these allegations on Tuesday, accusing the Election Commission of “farziwada”.

AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bhardwaj said, “The Election Commission committing ‘farziwada’ is nothing new. Most people in the country know that the Election Commission is committing fraud.”

Bhardwaj said that Chadha had told the media on September 3 that his vote had been deleted in Punjab. Chadha, who quit the AAP to join the BJP earlier this year, had said he would try to get himself registered in Punjab. Bhardwaj........

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