New Delhi, September 3: Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha’s name has been deleted from the draft electoral rolls in Punjab prepared as part of 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 recently joined the BJP, has alleged that the deletion was an act of “political vendetta”, claiming that the AAP leadership is “burning with anger” since he left the party.
Chadha’s name figures in the ASDD (Absent, Shifted, Deceased and Duplicate) list published on August 13. The reason recorded against his entry was “permanently shifted”. He is among the 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”. He also pointed out that the electoral rolls are still at the draft stage and said he was already using the remedies available 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.
He alleged that the AAP government was using the state’s administrative machinery against leaders 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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