Major mistakes have been identified by the State Election Commission in the revised electoral roll of Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency. The name and age of several thousand voters are wrong while a number of cases have been identified in which photo of a voter has been printed against the name of another voter.
The State Election Commission has sent a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of Hazaribagh to get rechecked all the forms submitted by the voters so that the electoral roll can be made error-free. The State Election Commission has given the time limit of 15th of November ’13 to complete this job to the Hazaribagh district administration.
DC Sunil Kumar has taken it seriously and has immediately ordered to cross check the voters-list and to rectify the mistakes. He immediately sat with the SDOs and other concerned officers and fixed the dates on which the booth officers will remain present on their booths with relevant forms and papers.
From today onwards the BlOs have started their work of rectification of voters list. It will continue till 8th of November and after that they will submit the forms and papers to their higher authorities.
MP Yashwant Sinha has also taken it very seriously and has written a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer of Jharkhand PK Jajoria. In his letter Sinha has reminded that due to mistakes in electoral roll in every election a large number of voters fail to use their right.
During precious elections major mistakes have been identified by several parties and have represented against it but the same thing is going on again which is painful. Sinha has requested Chief Election Commissioner to rectify the mistakes in time so that during next election voters cannot get disappointed after visiting the polling booth.
Yashwant Sinha has also demanded to have a proper enquiry on this issue because as per him it is a crime which obstructs the people to utilize their right. He had also demanded to take strong action against those responsible for these errors.