New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti has called out the BJP and the Election Commission (EC) over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), claiming that the BJP was using the exercise to orchestrate the deletion of 30 lakh votes in Delhi.

He said the EC's requirement for voters or their parents to be listed in the 2002 electoral roll was excluding lakhs of eligible voters.

The senior AAP leader also said that despite living in Delhi since before 2002, neither his name nor his parents' names appear in the electoral roll. He also noted that a large number of tenants were having their votes deleted because they lacked permanent proof of residence in the city.

Addressing ...