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Vote Chori Row: The Election Commission of India on Saturday fact-checked a video shared by Indian Youth Congress chief Uday Bhanu Chib on X in which a man found bundles of voter ID cards without a picture hidden in a toilet flush of a flat in Mumbai. Chib slammed the Chief Election Commission of India, calling him a 'spineless puppet'.

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"If voter IDs are found stuffed in a toilet flush... then this isn't just a scam, it's a slap on the face of the country's democracy!!...And Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is nothing more than a spineless puppet," his tweet in Hindi read.

Such ID Cards Discontinued In 2022: EC

Reacting to the X post, the Maharashtra CEO said that the design of the ID cards seen in the videos was discontinued in 2022.

"This is an old design of the Electoral Photo Identity Cards, and making and distribution of EPICs of this old design have been discontinued from year 2022. Since 2022, electoral photo Identity cards in new Horizontal Design are being distributed," Maharashtra CEO wrote on X.

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The development comes at a time when Congress opened a front against the EC, alleging it is involved in a 'vote chori'. The Grand Old Party intensified its attack on the poll body after Bihar debacle.

42 Voter ID Cards Found Dumped Near Union Minister's Home

Earlier, in August, a similar incident occurred in Madhya Pradesh after more than 40 voter ID cards were found dumped near the residence of Union minister Virendra Kumar in his Lok Sabha constituency of Tikamgarh.

The state government-allotted residence of the BJP Member of Parliament is located in Civil Lines, where the key documents were spotted by an aide of the minister.

Tehsildar Satendra Gurjar said that as soon as information was received, a police team reached the spot and recovered 42 voter ID cards which had the year 2011-12 printed on them. All the ID cards have been deposited in the local office of the Election Commission.

An investigation has been launched to find out whom the ID cards belong to and how they landed near the minister's residence.

(With PTI Inputs)

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