BRS to move High Court against electoral malpractices in Jubilee Hills bypoll
BRS working president KT Rama Rao accused the Congress government of manipulating voter lists in Jubilee Hills, citing over 23,000 suspicious new entries. He announced the party will approach the Telangana High Court for investigation and corrective action
Hyderabad: In a scathing attack on the Congress government and the Election Commission of India (ECI), BRS working president KT Rama Rao announced that his party would approach the Telangana High Court on Wednesday over large-scale voter fraud in the Jubilee Hills Assembly bypoll. This was since the ECI had failed to act on their complaints despite irrefutable evidence of electoral manipulation, he said.
Giving a presentation on the electoral irregularities at Telangana Bhavan on Tuesday, Rama Rao said the ruling Congress was engineering fake votes and manipulating the voter list to influence the bypoll outcome. “Even after 24 hours, the Election Commission has not responded to our detailed representation. This silence is unacceptable. We will now approach the court to ensure justice,” he said, reiterating his demands to the Election Commission, including a comprehensive investigation into all 23,000 newly added votes in the constituency.
He also wanted immediate deletion of all duplicate and fake entries, apart from initiating disciplinary action against officials involved in voter registration irregularities.
“The credibility of the ECI itself is now in question,” he said, warning that if the Commission remained unresponsive, it would set a dangerous precedent for democratic fairness.
Earlier, Rama Rao presented extensive evidence from the field verification conducted across the constituency by the BRS, revealing glaring anomalies in the voter list. “In just two days, our teams identified thousands of fake entries including voters with multiple voter identity cards, non-existent addresses and mass registrations in single houses. Why is the Election Commission, with all its machinery, blind to this?” he asked.
According to the field verification by BRS cadre, over 23,000 new votes were added in Jubilee Hills in the last two years, pushing the total number of voters from 3.75 lakh to 3.98 lakh, while 12,000 names were deleted due to death or relocation. “That is an unnatural spike and a clear indicator of manipulation,” he said.
Citing examples, the BRS leader said House No. 118, belonging to a Congress leader, had 32 fake voters. In another case, 43 votes were registered in Sanskriti Avenue Apartments with none of these ‘voters’ living there. “At one address ‘House No. 8-3-229/D/43/1’, 42 voters were listed, but the house doesn’t exist,” he revealed. The BRS team also identified 287 house numbers with over 30 voters each, including one with 251 votes registered to a single home.
Congress candidate Naveen Yadav’s brother, Praveen Kumar Yadav, held three voter IDs across two constituencies including two in Jubilee Hills and one in Rajendranagar, he said, adding that in another case, House no.118, which belongs to a Congress leader, had 32 fake voters added in the recent revision of the voter list.
One Miryala Ashok has a vote in Devarakonda constituency as per the 2024 voter list. But he was recently registered in the Jubilee Hills constituency with the name “Ashok Miryala”. Incidentally, both are valid voter ID cards. “Even a person from my Sircilla constituency, Goguri Srinivas Reddy, has been registered here as Srinivas Reddy Goguri. That person is not even aware of it,” Rama Rao said, sharing a video confession of the voter.
He stated that under Booth no 125, there were 23 votes in the same house. “The house owner Narayana declared that he was staying alone since his wife’s death. He does not know any of the 23 voters enrolled with his home address,” he said, adding that a local cable operator working in the locality also confirmed that there were no such voters.
The BRS working president said the Congress was colluding with booth-level officials to create “Chor Votes” (fake votes), while party leaders like Rahul Gandhi preach against “Vote Chori” (vote theft) in other States. He challenged Rahul Gandhi to address the Chor Vote in Telangana, as it was no less than what was happening in Bihar.
“When Rahul Gandhi lectures about democracy in Bihar, he should first look at the vote theft happening in Telangana under his own party’s government. This is a matter of grave constitutional concern,” he said.
Vowing to fight the issue legally and politically, he declared that the Congress might control the administration, but not the truth. “We will take this issue to the High Court, to the Election Commission, and to the people. Democracy in Telangana will not be allowed to be stolen,” he asserted.
