Minister Devineni Umamaheswara Rao has alleged that members of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) had submitted Form-7 applications en masse online for the deletion of names of 95,177 from the voters’ list in Krishna district in an attempt to deprive voters of their right.

Mr. Rao, along with MLC Buddha Venkanna, district party president B. Arjunudu and former YSRCP member Janaki Ramarao, who recently quit the party over the form misuse allegations, from Chandarlapadu, filed a complaint with the Collector, the Commissioner of Police and the Superintendent of Police seeking action against the accused.

Calling upon the officials to conduct an inquiry into the issue at the village-level, the leaders in the complaint mentioned that only an inquiry would reveal that the so-called applicants were YSRCP supporters and those in whose names applications were submitted belonged to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

Mr. Rao said that acting on a false complaint made by YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s relative, K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s government in Telangana had passed on personal data of voters to an IT firm that had designed the Seva Mitra app for the YSRCP, as a result of which voters were getting phone calls from the the party.

‘Telangana meddling in issue’

He said Telangana, where names of 24 lakh voters were deleted just before the recent Assembly election, had no right to meddle in A.P.’s names deletion cases.

He alleged that Mr. Jagan had pushed several YSRCP leaders into trouble by prodding them to submit the applications. Their actions had attracted cases against them under sections 419, 182, 171, 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 66(b) of Information Technology Act. He said the Collector and the Commissioner of Police had assured them of a probe involving tracing the accused through internet protocol (IP) addresses.

Meanwhile, Mr. Venkanna dared Mr. Jagan to allow the TDP to enter the Lotus Pond in Hyderabad and prove the presence of data of TDP supporters in computers there.

MLAs Gadde Rammohan Rao, Bode Prasad, Sriram Rajagopal, Uppuleti Kalpana and T. Soumya informed the officials about the applications submitted in respective constituencies. .