Andhra Pradesh State DGP Ram Pravesh Thakur (IPS:1986:AP) is getting into one problem after another hard on the heels of the demolition of the unauthorised portion of his private Hyderabad house.

 

After YSR Congress, AP BJP has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India seeking his replacement.

 

BJP AP President Kanna Lakshminarayana, MP GVL Narasimha Rao, MLC PVN Madav and other leaders have submitted a complaint to the ECI and sought action against him.

 

Lakshminarayana and Narasimha Rao said that with the active connivance of people in high positions in the Andhra Pradesh government, confidential and secure data of the states’ voters and residents had been leaked to the ruling Telugu Desam (TD). “This large-scale data theft not only put the people of AP at great risk but had given undue advantage to the ruling party which had gained illegitimate access to data like Aadhar numbers and linked bank accounts, photographs of all voters from the master voter database of Election Commission, social mapping and political preferences of voters obtained through government-sponsored surveys etc,” the complaint said.

 

The leaders alleged that after acquiring the public data “unauthorizedly”, large-scale deletion of voters showing a preference for the Opposition parties in government surveys had been done as a “preordained conspiracy”.

 

They alleged that around 18 lakh voters were removed from the lists and subsequently almost the same number was added till January 2019 almost matching the 2014 number.

 

The removal of this was done after the Smart Pulse Survey conducted by the AP Government in 2016 to profile voters based on their voting preferences.