With apprehensions of irregularities in postal ballots, a representative of Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (CGPCC) met Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sunil Kumar Kujur on Monday and demanded providing of the postal ballots list to the Congress candidates in their respective Assembly seats.
After handing over a memorandum to CEO Subhas Sharma, general secretary CGPCC with reports, alleged that administration is under strong influence of the BJP candidates especially those who were Ministers in the State Government.
Sharma also said reports of misuse of postal ballots are coming from constituencies including Durg City, Kota, Bilaspur City, Rajnandgaon, Kawardha and others. Sharma stressed the need for identification of officers who are responsible for distribution of postal ballots in different districts and their identity must be shared with candidate of political parties. They also alleged that list of candidates has been provided to the BJP.
The delegation demanded that postal ballots should be verified for preventing any chances of fake voting. They went on suggesting that counting should proceed to second phase only when verification of vote numbers to individual parties have been properly verified and all claims/objections have been addressed.
Sharma pointed out that Durg City constituency has reported maximum number of 2,019 voters who would be casting their votes through postal ballots. He alleged that Congress candidate has not been provided authentic list of voters who would be casting their franchise through postal ballots despite repeated requests. Sharma further pointed out that one of the Returning Officers had to admit 15 major irregularities in the voters list based on complaints by the Congress.