AAP claims EC agreed to hold probe in call centre issue without Delhi police involvement

The AAP Friday claimed that the Election Commission has agreed to its demand to probe, without the involvement of the Delhi police, the allegations that a call centre hired by the party was making "misleading" calls to people about deletion of their names from electoral rolls.

Emerging out from the EC premises, after three rounds of meeting in the last 10 hours, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told reporters that senior officials of the the commission listened "seriously" to AAP's complaints about the raids at the call centre, hired by the party to make people aware about the deletion of their names from voters' lists.

However, there was no immediate response from the Election Commission.

"The raids were conducted to harass call centre employees, including women who were made to stand," he alleged, adding, the EC, including the three election commissioners listened to the AAP delegation, the Delhi CEO and the police officials.

"And, the Election Commission has agreed to hold a probe into the call centre issue, without the involvement of the police, which was our demand earlier," Sisodia told reporters.

AAP workers led by Sisodia, sat on a protest outside the Election Commission on Friday alleging that "politically motivated and illegal" raids were being conducted on the call centre.

After sitting for over three hours at the protest outside the Election Commission, Sisodia and Lok Sabha candidates Atishi and Raghav Chadha were called by the Election Commission to hold a joint meeting with police officials.

After the meeting, Sisodia said, "We are responsible for making those calls to tell the public about their vote deletion. Telling people about their rights is not a crime."