Chandigarh
On Thursday, a delegation from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) met with the Chief Commissioner of the Gurdwara Elections Commission, alleging the registration of bogus votes for the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) general elections.
The delegation included SAD working president Balwinder Singh Bhundar, former president Sukhbir Singh Badal, SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami, and senior party leader Daljit Singh Cheema. They met with Chief Commissioner Justice (retd) Surinder Singh Saron.
Speaking to the media, Cheema claimed that there had been large-scale registration of bogus votes for the SGPC elections. He alleged that thousands of bogus votes had been registered and that many votes without the Singh and Kaur suffixes had been added to the voter lists. We provided the voter lists where 'Singh' and 'Kaur' were missing after names, he said. Cheema also mentioned complaints about missing lists of genuine votes.
The delegation called for a thorough scrutiny of the voter lists. The Gurdwara Election Commission has yet to announce the schedule for the SGPC elections.