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The Election Commission on Thursday gave a clean chit to the BJP chief ministerial candidate, Kiran Bedi, in the matter of having two voter identity cards with separate addresses.

The EC clean chit comes as a big relief to the activist-turned-politician as AAP and Congress had demanded a thorough probe into the issue alleging violation by the former IPS officer.

The poll panel clarified that Bedi had applied for deletion of her Talkatora Lane address (voter ID number SJE0047969) in New Delhi. She now only holds voter identity card (number TZD1656909) having Uday Park residential address.

Bedi has mentioned Uday Park as her residential address in her nomination papers filed from Krishna Nagar constituency.

Bedi had on Wednesday refused to comment on the issue, leading to talks of violation of EC rules.