NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday rejected Congress chief and Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi’s declare that his title and people of his relations have been lacking from Punjab’s draft electoral roll revealed on August 13.In accordance with an ECI assertion, the Lok Sabha member and 4 of his relations are listed as electors within the Patiala Meeting constituency.“Dr Dharamvira Gandhi, Member of Parliament, in addition to his relations, spouse Jagdamba Kaushal, daughter Rohani Prashar, daughter-in-law Chahat Sahuja, and son Nabendhu, are very a lot part of the Draft Electoral Roll revealed on thirteenth August 2026. They’re registered as electors in AC No 115 – Patiala, Half No 98, at Serial numbers 44 to 48,” the ballot panel stated.
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The ECI’s clarification got here a day after Dharamvira Gandhi, who was earlier related to Punjab’s ruling AAP, claimed that his title and people of his relations have been lacking from the draft electoral roll revealed as a part of the ECI’s Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) train within the state, the place Meeting elections are due in February 2027.His declare got here on the identical day that BJP chief Raghav Chadha, one other Punjab MP and one other former AAP member, was marked as “shifted” within the state’s draft electoral roll. Chadha, who joined the BJP in April, accused his former social gathering of “political vendetta.” AAP rejected the allegation, mentioning that the SIR train is performed by the Election Fee and never by a state authorities.Earlier, former diplomat Navdeep Suri had additionally alleged that he confronted “difficulties” in “establishing my citizenship” in the course of the Punjab SIR.