Raghav Chadha's name deleted from Punjab voter rolls, he says AAP burning with anger

Raghav Chadha's name has been removed from Punjab's draft electoral rolls under the SIR exercise. He has called the move political vendetta and said his voter ID remains registered in Mohali.

Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha’s name has been deleted from the Punjab draft electoral rolls prepared under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), with his entry marked as 'permanently shifted'. Chadha, who was elected as an AAP Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab in 2022 and joined the BJP recently, has alleged that the deletion was an act of "political vendetta" as the AAP is "burning with anger".

Chadha’s name appears in the ASDD (Absent, Shifted, Deceased and Duplicate) list published on August 13 and the reason recorded against his entry was 'permanently shifted'. He is among 20.66 lakh voters, or around 9.7 per cent of Punjab’s pre-SIR electorate, whose names have been deleted from the draft rolls.

Reacting to the development, Chadha said his voter ID is registered in Mohali and questioned why he had been classified as 'shifted'. The MP added the electoral rolls were only in the draft stage and that he was already availing himself of the remedies provided under the SIR guidelines.

"This does not seem like a mere clerical mistake. This is a clear case of political vendetta," Chadha said in a detailed social media post, alleging that the AAP government was using the state’s administrative machinery against those who had left the party. "Ever since I left the corrupt Aam Aadmi Party, its leadership has been burning with anger," he said.

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