A delegation of Congress leaders, led by Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Digvijay Singh, on Sunday raised the “gross irregularities” in the state’s voters’ rolls with the Election Commission. The evidence, handed over by the Congress leaders to the EC, alleges that nearly 60 lakh fake voters had been created by the state government.

Addressing media at the Congress headquarters after his EC visit, Kamal Nath questioned the role of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state government. “We met the EC and handed them over a CD having evidence of fake voters. We have demanded a probe and that punishment be handed down to the guilty officers,” said Kamal Nath, adding that it was up to EC to take appropriate action.

Calling it the “biggest attack on the foundation of the Indian democracy and the Constitution,” the head of MP’s campaign panel, Jyotiraditya Scindia, also blamed the BJP government for deliberately creating fake voters.

“It did not happen by mistake…We mainly found two kinds of forgeries in the voters’ list. First is related to the duplication of the voter ID cards. After analysing voters’ list of 101 assembly seats, we found that there were nearly 25 lakh such voters whose names were found in the voters’ list of two different wards of the same assembly seat,” said Scindia.

“In another kind of forgery, we found nearly 27 lakhs fake voters whose names were included in the voters’ rolls of two different assembly seats. Put together, we can say around 55 lakh fake voters have been created by the BJP government,” claimed Scindia.

“Based on the analysis of 101 seats, we reached this conclusion. What we have analysed so far are only 40% of the total assembly seats. Going by this pattern, we can say that the BJP has created around 60 lakh fake voters in MP, which is 12 per cent of the total electorate,” added Scindia.