The Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has said that there were about 15 lakh bogus voters in Hyderabad and there was a threat that these bogus voters will be used to influence the politics of Telangana State. “This will not be good for the democratic system”, he said.
He said that to weed out the bogus voters it was compulsory to link the voter cards with the Aadhar cards first in the city and then in the entire State. “The process will be completed in the city in the next 20 days”, he said. He directed the officials to take effective measures to ensure that there were was no bogus voter in the city. He also appealed to all the political parties to cooperate in this process.
The issue came up when the State Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar lal called on the Chief Minister at his camp office on Monday.
The voters list should be finalised before the delimitation of the wards of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The corporation was scheduled to go to the polls before the end of the year.
KCR warned that if the voters don’t get their cards linked to Aadhar even after two or three intimations, their name will be deleted from the voters list. After the completing the process in the city, the work of linking voter cards and Aadhar cards will be taken up all over the state, the Chief Minister said.
“There should be a single voters list both for the general elections and the local bodies elections”, KCR said.