Following the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) recent observation over the unauthorised download of Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) ahead of the by-election to the Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded that a State-wide investigation be taken up to unravel similar discrepancies.
Speaking at a meeting of Shakti Kendra members and booth-level workers in Nandyal district here on Sunday, BJP State president Daggubati Purandeswari recalled that the ECI had cracked the whip after a complaint was lodged by the BJP after the by-election. “If 30,000 voter identity cards could be compromised and fake cards created in Tirupati alone, we demand a probe to check for such discrepancies across the State,” she said.
