AP Opposition parties demand probe into drop in voters in 158 seats

AMARAVATI: The recently released revised list of voters in Andhra Pradesh has evoked a row of conflict within the opposition parties, raising doubts over the conspiracy of deletion of the number of voters in as many as 158 constituencies in the State.

The opposition parties, which claimed that as many as 15,90,802 voters were removed from January 2022 to January 2023, demanded an investigation into the decrease in the number of voters.

The opposition parties complained that the names were removed from the list without any prior notice or knowledge of the voter. They also said that the village volunteers were behind the deletion of the voters.

However, the Central Election Commission denied the allegations and made clear that only the voters of those whose names are repeated in the list, those who have died, and those who have migrated have been deleted.

On the other hand, there was an increase of voters in only 17 constituencies as compared to the number of voters as on January 5 last year. According to the revised voter list, the constituencies Mylavaram, Gajuwaka, and Visakhapatnam East have stood in the top three with more voters being removed with 25,189, 18,224, and 16,789 respectively while Nandikotkur with 2,109, Darshi with 1,964 and Ongole with 1,960 were in the top three positions in the increase of voters.

According to the details of the reduction of voters in the various constituencies, one constituency was reported with a decrease of more than 25,000 voters, followed by four constituencies with a reduction of 15,000-20,000 voters, 11 constituencies with a reduction of 10,000-15,000, two constituencies with a reduction of 9,000-10,000, six constituencies with a reduction of 8,000-9,000, eleven constituencies with reduction of 7,000-8,000, 13 constituencies with a reduction of 6,000-7,000, sixteen constituencies with a decrease of 5,000-6,000 voters, 94 constituencies with a reduction of less than 5,000 voters respectively.