AAP Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj on Friday tore into the Election Commission (EC), declaring that he is prepared to file his complaint on affidavit before Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and charging the poll body with shielding a massive vote deletion fraud. The AAP Delhi unit chief said the EC had “exposed itself” by publicly releasing the very data it earlier termed “personal” while rejecting AAP’s RTI request, proving that it lacks transparency in its own functioning.
Saurabh Bharadwaj pointed out that the Commission is complicit in covering up vote theft, warning that such conduct is a grave threat to democracy, and insisted that if any fair probe were allowed, its trail would lead straight to the BJP. He noted that Delhi Police and central investigative agencies, under BJP’s control, are deliberately stonewalling an inquiry to protect those involved.
Addressing a press conference, AAP Delhi unit president Saurabh Bharadwaj made a major announcement. He said, “Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar has a great fondness for receiving complaints only on affidavits. Yesterday, I tweeted this, and today through this press conference I am saying it publicly again that I am ready to submit an affidavit to Gyanesh Kumar regarding the irregularities in the voter list during the February 2025 Delhi Assembly elections.”
Saurabh Bharadwaj requested the media to ask Gyanesh Kumar when and where should he bring the affidavit. “He should tell me — whenever and wherever he wants, I will go with my affidavit, so that unlike past cases, he cannot give the excuse that the complaint was not filed on affidavit,” he said.
Referring to the irregularities in New Delhi constituency, he added, “Yesterday, in this very place, we shared with the press evidence of how large-scale deletion of votes and fraud took place during the February 2025 Delhi Assembly elections in the constituency of Arvind Kejriwal, where he, Parvesh Verma and Sandeep Dikshit — the three most high-profile candidates — were contesting. We presented all the data to the journalists as well.”
Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “Against this fraud, senior AAP leaders including Arvind Kejriwal, Sanjay Singh, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, and Raghav Chadha, all held press conferences and demanded an investigation. Yet the Election Commission took no action, no concrete step was initiated. Chief Minister Atishi even submitted multiple written complaints to the Election Commission, with all the facts and evidence, but still no action was taken.”
He continued, “Just a few days ago, we filed a Right to Information (RTI) request asking what steps the Election Commission has taken so far in this matter — was any First Information Report (FIR) filed, was any officer appointed for inquiry, was any investigation carried out? But the Commission refused to share any information, calling it ‘personal,’ and closed the file without conducting any probe.”
“Yesterday, when we raised several questions in our press conference, the Election Commission responded late at night around 9:00 pm, saying that in January they had received a complaint, met the then Chief Minister and her colleagues, and on 13 January they had written a reply letter to her,” he said.
The AAP Delhi unit chief said that until now we had been saying that the role of then Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and present Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in the fraudulent deletion of votes was doubtful. But after last night’s response from the Election Commission, I am saying with full responsibility that the Commission itself is openly engaged in covering up this fraud. We may not know who carried out the theft, but the Chief Election Commissioner and the Election Commission’s entire role has been to cover it up.
Explaining why he said this, he stated, “On 9 September, the Commission rejected our RTI reply saying that the information was personal and could not be shared. Yet last night, the same Election Commission tweeted and made the information public, saying they had responded to the then Chief Minister with a letter. This clearly shows that the Commission was trying to hide the fraud. For a democracy, it is extremely dangerous when the very institution responsible for conducting elections transparently is itself not transparent in its internal functioning.”
Pointing to the political context, Saurabh Bharadwaj added, “When Arvind Kejriwal raises a complaint of this nature, suspicion naturally falls on either the BJP or the Congress. Since the Commission has no interest in Congress, and because BJP is in power at the Centre, it appears that the BJP is behind this fraud. That is why Delhi Police, which comes under the BJP-led central government, and other investigative agencies do not want to conduct any inquiry in this matter.”
