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Booth Level Officer (BLO) in Jaipur’s Hawa Mahal assembly constituency has alleged that he is being pressured to delete hundreds of voters, most of them Muslims, from the electoral rolls, and has warned that the stress has pushed him to the brink of suicide.

Kirti Kumar, a government school teacher serving as a BLO, said he is being forced to strike off the names of nearly 40 per cent of his booth’s voters from the draft rolls published after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). He alleged that these objections specifically target Muslim voters, even though he has already verified all of them.

In a video clip that has gone viral on social media, Kumar can be heard shouting during a phone call, “I will go to the collector’s office and commit suicide there.”

In the same clip, he is heard telling BJP councillor Suresh Saini, “Maybe I should remove voters from the entire basti. That will help you and Maharaj win the election comfortably.”

“Maharaj” is a reference to BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya, who won the 2023 Assembly election from Hawa Mahal, a Muslim-majority constituency, by a margin of just 974 votes.

Acharya, the chief priest of Jaipur’s Dakshinmukhiji Balaji Temple, has since been at the centre of repeated controversies over remarks and actions allegedly targeting Muslims.

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