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Food and Civil Supplies Minister Sanjay Dasburma is not the only politician who has his name registered in the voter list at two different places. Many other BJD MPs and MlAs are reportedly enjoying dual electorship in violation of the Representation of the People Act, sources said.
The CEO, which claimed that it had deleted about 8.84 lakh names from the voter list by January 15, strangely spared some people’s representative names even though they left clues mentioning in their affidavits that they own houses at different places in the State.
First, the BJP had raised the issue of Dasburma registering his name in the voter list in Malud block with voter ID number KRK 1459098 and in Kharavel Nagar in Bhubaneswar with the ID number RXl 0516864.
But it is now found that Pinaki Mishra, Tathagata Satpathy, Kalikesh Singh Deo, Nagendra Pradhan, Bikram Keshari Arukh, Maheswar Mohanty, Jogendra Behera, Pramila Mallick, Byomkesh Ray, Arun Patnaik and Uma Ballav Rath have their names registered at two different places.
Dhenkanal MP Tathagata Satpathy, son of late Debendra Nath Satpathy has his name registered in the Voter list at Kunjakant of Dhenkanal city with Voter ID No-OR/19/118/312369. But he has also got his name registered at his Surya Nagar residence in Bhubaneswar with voter ID number OR/19/118/312369. The number of Voter ID cards and the father’s name are the same in the two cases.
Puri MP Pinaki Mishra has registered his name in Nageswar Tangi of Gautam Nagar in Bhubaneswar with ID No-RMU 0855064 and another in New Delhi with Voter ID No-SJE 0798074. His father’s name loknath Mishra is the same at both the places. Mishra has two residential buildings in the national capital.
Balangir MP Kalikesh Singh Deo has two Voter ID cards in Bhubaneswar and Balangir. He enjoys electorship in Gopabandhu Nagar with ID No- RXl 0664904 besides having one in Bolangir (llP 2032423).
Sambalpur MP Nagendra Pradhan, who belongs to Angul district, has one voter ID card at Hakimpada in Angul district with Voter No-OR/19/116/224490 and another in Bhubaneswar. He has a residential building in Madhusudan Nagar, Unit-VI.
loisinga MlA and MSME Minister Jogendra Behera has also two voter cards, one with No-KlX 3052628 in MlA colony here and another in his village Belgaon with Voter ID no lGY 1382266.
Puri MlA Maheswar Mohanty has got his name enrolled in Voter list at the College Road, Puri with No-OR 08056290019 and also at MlA colony in Bhubaneswar. Similarly, Binjharpur MlA and BJD’s women wing president Pramila Mallick has double Voter IDs, one at Binjharpur and another at Jagamara, Khandagiri.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh has two Voter IDs in his possession, one at MlA colony and another at his Agajhol in Ganjam district.
Chandabali MlA and BJD students’ wing president Byomkesh Ray has a Voter ID at Baghanata of Chandbali and another at Bidyadharpur under Cuttack Sadar area.
While this information is available on the website of the Chief Electoral Office (CEO), people belonging to different quarters have questioned the authenticity of the voter list and fidelity of the leaders enjoying voting right at two places.
Under Section 31 of the Representation of the People’s Act, any person keeping two voter ID cards has to mention the number and place of both cards and declare which ID card he/she wants to retain, said an expert.