The Bharatya Janata Party on Sunday launched a no-holds-barred attack on RJD leader and former deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav, accusing him of committing a crime by keeping two voter ID cards.
The saffron party alleged that the Election Photo Identity Card (EPIC) number Yadav had cited at a press meet was different from the one he officially carries.
The BJP’s broadside at the RJD leader came a day after the Election Commission refuted his claim that his name was missing from the draft electoral rolls in Bihar.
"The Congress and RJD have been thoroughly exposed... Did you (Yadav) lie under oath? Did you present wrong facts to the Election Commission," BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra asked.
#WATCH | Delhi: "... This means he (Tejashwi Yadav) had two EPIC numbers... Did he have two voter IDs?...," asks BJP MP Sambit Patra, on allegations made by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav that his name had been removed from the voter list.
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Yadav, the leader of the opposition in the state assembly, on Saturday claimed his name was missing in the draft electoral rolls published by the poll panel as part of the special intensive revision in Bihar. The Commission, however, refuted his claim and said his name appears at serial number 416.
Yadav, however, doubled down on his allegation and said the EPIC number given in the draft electoral roll is different from the voter ID he carries.
Asked about it, Patna DM Shirshat Kapil Ashok said, "The EPIC number in the draft rolls is the same as the one submitted by the honourable leader of the opposition in the 2020 Assembly polls. If he is in possession of more than one EPIC, then it is a matter of investigation".
This has fuelled the BJP’s attack on the RJD leader with the saffron party accusing him of committing a fraud.
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Patra alleged that the voter ID the RJD leader had submitted in his 2020 poll affidavit was different from the one he had mentioned on Saturday to claim that his name was missing from the electoral rolls.
“If a party leader like Yadav carries two voter IDs, then what will its workers be doing?,” the BJP spokesperson asked. He further claimed that the entire episode showed RJD members cast votes at two places to inflate support for their party.
The BJP spokesperson further claimed that not a single complaint has come from booth agents of political parties about any name being deleted from electoral rolls in Bihar.
