With testing the humiliating defeat in the recently concluded assembly poll, the opposition Congress has began preparation in Chhattisgarh for the lok Sabha polls due next year.
The state Congress chief Charan Das Mahant has issued letters to all party functionaries asking them to involve in the correction in electoral rolls, party spokesman Shailesh Nitin Trivedi said. He has also asked all the office bearers to pursue people to enroll themselves if their name did not figure in the list, Trivedi added.
The Election Commission of India has announced a brief special summary revision of voter list for the lok Sabha election in the state from Dec 16- 31. During this period the commission will accept correction of minor mistakes like, name, surname, age, sex or other. The initial publication of revised voters list was done on December 16. The claims and objections would be disposed till January 6, 2014. The last revised voters list would be published on January 15, 2014.
Mahant has asked the office bearer to take it seriously and ensure that no voter is excluded in their respective area, he said. The party had received allegation that many names were deliberately excluded from the list ahead the assembly election.