ECI is BJP’s ‘troll commission’ turned ‘earthworm’: Tejashwi Yadav unearths more ID twins

Posting a “late-night revelation” on voter fraud on 13 August and another this morning, 14 August, RJD leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav continued his allegations of dual voter IDs held by NDA leaders in the state — this time with photographic evidence of the two EPIC IDs apiece held by MP Vina Devi and by MLC Dinesh Singh, a “close associate” of chief minister Nitish Kumar (lawmakers who share yet another link, however).

Vina Devi, the NDA MP from Vaishali constituency, is according to the two EPICs shared by Yadav, is placed in two districts, in two different Lok Sabha constituencies and two different assembly constituencies too, apparently.

The two IDs in question are UTO1134543 and GSB1037894, per Yadav’s allegations.

He also claimed Vina Devi has filled out two different forms in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that is ongoing in the state. “The Election Commission signed off on these two different forms, stating that the MP herself signed them,” he posted.

Her two EPIC cards show different ages, he also said, sharing images, and argued that she must have signed her SIR forms with different signatures as well.

“Is this not a case of fraud, manipulation and collusion by the Election Commission to ensure a victory for BJP-NDA?” the Opposition leader asked.

“Will the ‘TROLL Commission’ of the BJP, now turned into a worm-like commission, conduct a fact check and issue two different notices to her from two different places?” was his final question.

Yadav also held a press conference yesterday, 13 August, citing several more cases of BJP functionaries holding dual voter IDs — and of those who seem to switch locations rather serendipitously to be in election-ready locations at just the right time. For instance, he cited Bhikhubhai Dalsaniya of Gujarat, who voted there in 2024, and is now poised to vote from Patna in the 2025 assembly elections.

Then, earlier this morning, 14 August, Yadav offered yet another example, that of MLC Dinesh Singh, who he claimed was a close associate of the chief minister and a long-time JDU legislator.

His two IDs, Yadav alleges, are REM0933267 and UTO1134527 — again, allowing him to apparently vote in two different districts, for two different Lok Sabha seats and two different assembly seats. Again, the RJD leader has alleged that Singh must have signed two different SIR forms.

“Did the Election Commission officer sign on these two different forms confirming that MLC-sahab signed them himself?” Yadav asks in his post.

This post too is accompanied by screenshots and snapshots of paper and digital evidence of Yadav’s allegations.

But more explosively, Yadav continues with a further revelation: Singh is the spouse of Vina Devi, the selfsame NDA MP from Vaishali!

“Did the Election Commission allow him to have two votes because of his closeness to the chief minister?” Yadav asks in his post, which goes on to pose three more questions to the ECI:

• Is this not electoral fraud by the EC to ensure the NDA’s victory?

• Will the Election Commission accept its irregularities and mistakes in the SIR?

• Will the Election Commission issue two different notices to Shri Dinesh Singh from two different places?

Of course, Bihar has been a hotbed of upset over the apparent flaws in the SIR, with yesterday and the day before (12 August), ‘dead’ voters turning up alive to testify before the Supreme Court and be interviewed by Opposition leaders (and the National Herald).

But these are far from the only issues of electoral integrity plaguing the ECI, ever since Rahul Gandhi unveiled the INDIA bloc’s ‘Vote chori’ campaign with his own laundry list of excerpts from the ECI’s own documentation — including names, images and figures that suggest, he alleged, 1 lakh votes stolen in a single Bengaluru constituency during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The joint campaign, in three phases, against both the Bihar SIR and ‘Vote Chori’ is being rolled out from today with active participation across parties.

And meanwhile, there have been the explosive new allegations out of Goa, where apparently over a 100 people of different religions have managed to reside and vote from a single address in one of the more extreme examples — though there are also multiple voters resident in bars, at houses numbered ‘0’ and even in non-existent buildings, and casting their ballot happily. More on that at the link below.