Seema Goyal, the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) candidate in one of the 12 wards in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) where bypolls were held in November, has moved a Delhi court alleging “tampering of votes”.
After hearing the petition, Principal District and Sessions Judge Nisha Sahay Saxena of the Rohini court issued notice and listed the matter for December 24.
Goyal had moved a petition challenging the results of the MCD bye-elections of the Ashok Vihar ward. She had claimed that 801 voters had been “erroneously” added in the A-Block polling area. She also claimed that two polling stations “located outside the jurisdictional boundary” had been “unlawfully” included in the electoral roll.
“The purported margin of victory is shown as 405 votes. This result is highly improbable, inconsistent with the earlier count, and indicative of manipulation, wrongful acceptance of invalid votes, wrongful rejection of valid votes, and possibly unlawful addition of ballots from the misallocated polling areas, including the areas illegally added from Ward 64 and the two misallocated polling stations listed above,” the petition claimed.
It added, “During the counting process, a highly suspicious, unexplained and prima facie fraudulent reversal of the election result occurred. After completion of all 10 out of 10 rounds of counting, the petitioner, Seema Goyal, was leading by 179 votes. However, after an unexplained delay and after certain counting officials moved to an inner enclosure, suddenly and unexpectedly the Respondent No. 1 Smt. Veena Asija (BJP) was declared as the purported Returned Candidate.”
In her petition, Goyal also stated that a written complaint had been lodged with the Returning Officer, requesting immediate intervention but no action was taken.
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