The Deputy Chief Election Commissioner of India Vinod Jutsi held a series of meetings with the officials and representatives of different political parties here on Sunday in the run up for the next lok Sabha elections.
"The meeting with the officials and the representatives of the political parties was found to be very cordial. Issues like revamping of voters’ list, security during election and problems of the political parties were discussed in detail," the spokesman of the Election Commission said in a statement here.
The Deputy Election Commissioner was informed that the voters list in the State has been revamped and would be published in February. It has found 82 lakh new voters out of which 27 lakh will cast their vote for the first time. He was also informed that names of 27 lakh voters have been also removed for various reasons.
later Jutsi held a meeting with Secretary Amrit Abhijat and Additional Director General (law and order) Mukul Goyal and discussed availability of forces for the election. He also held a meeting with representatives of different political parties. The parties gave their suggestions about polling booth and anomalies in voters’ list. Jutsi assured the leaders that Election Commission will look into their complaints.
Amit Puri (BJP), Sukhdeo rajbhar (Bahujan Samaj Party), Arvind Raj Swaroop (CPI), Rakesh Mishra (Congress), Shrwan Kumar Awasthi (National Congress Party), Anil Dubey (Rashtriya lok Dal) and Bhagwati Singh (Samajwadi Party) represented their parties before election commission. Jutis will hold a meeting with District Election Officers on Monday to review the poll preparedness in respective districts.