CM Revanth Reddy attacks Centre on mass deletion of votes

Kodangal/Hyderabad: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has accused the BJP-led Union government of resorting to “vote theft” as part of a conspiracy in non-BJP-ruled states in the ongoing SIR. Participating in a meeting of the local Congress leaders and workers in the Kodangal Assembly constituency on Saturday, the Chief Minister warned that the BJP was making attempts to win the next Assembly elections in Telangana by deleting the votes of the Congress supporters. According to the Chief Minister, the BJP won in Maharashtra, Bihar and West Bengal elections by removing the votes and is now adopting the same deceitful tactic in Telangana. He criticised the BJP for targeting SC, ST and minority voters in the SIR.

“We are ready to counter the BJP move to delete the names of Congress supporters,” he added.

The Chief Minister alleged that the BJP exploited ED and CBI to defeat its political rivals in the previous elections. Now, the ruling national party has resorted to deleting votes. The Chief Minister strongly objected to the deletion of votes, using minor errors as a pretext. The BRS was also supporting the BJP in the deletion of votes to defeat the Congress, he alleged. Revanth Reddy stressed that the responsibility of safeguarding the right to vote lies with all Congress workers and leaders. The Chief Minister called all important leaders to shoulder the responsibility of protecting people's votes. The BLAs should coordinate at the village level to ensure that the votes of the poor are not deleted. The mandal level leaders are also responsible to check the indiscriminate deletion of votes. The Chief Minister ordered each leader to take responsibility of four villages and ensure that not a single vote is deleted from any booth. Everyone must remain vigilant and thwart the conspiracies of the BJP and BRS. Kodangal has gained national recognition and respect because the local people extended all kinds of support to him to lead the Telangana state, he said.

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