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| Say irregularities deliberate, seek ECI intervention | | New voter lists irk Jammu people | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 19: There has been a growing concern among the people over the deletion of names of the bonafide voters in the voter lists especially in Jammu region. The aggrieved persons have sought intervention of the Election Commission of India.
According to sources, the electoral rolls are full of mistakes and incomplete in all respects. The names of the bonafide voters are missing in these rolls and despite complaints the authorities seem unmoved.
Sources said even the political parties of Jammu region have also taken serious exception to irregularity and appealed to the Election Commission of India to take appropriate measures. They said that the mistakes were deliberate and aimed at depriving the voters from exercising their franchise. The political parties in an appeal to ECI have demanded an independent look into the matter, sources added.
Sources said the voter lists in Jammu are flawed to such an extent that in 2002 elections Jammu region had over three lakh more voters than Kashmir Valley but this number was mysteriously changed in 2008 Assembly poll. While many voters were deleted from the electoral rolls in Jammu their number increased in Kashmir Valley without reason. This was done to show an equal number of voters in the two regions, sources added.
They said while in maximum wards of Municipal limits of Jammu there has hardly been any increase in the number of voters in the lists but in other wards especially in outskirts of the city this number has increased from 50 percent to 100 percent. In Ward No 71 the number of voters in 2005 was just 446 which has increased to over two thousand now. This is over five times increase, sources added.
Sources said that the discrepancies in the voter lists are deliberate and in Kupwara district of Kashmir Valley bordering PoK there has been 70 percent increase in voters while in Jammu district and some other areas of the region the increase is from 10 to 20 percent. In some areas the voter number has been increased more than the census of 2011, sources added.
Sources said likewise the number of Kashmiri migrant voters in 2002 was registered as over one lakh but in 2013 this number has decreased to 83 653 which means a decrease of about 20 percent. This has put a question mark on the authenticity of these voter lists as the total number of migrant families registered with the Government was 62,000 out of which 41,000 families are registered at Jammu alone and on the other hand the number of migrant voters is less than 90,000.
The another major discrimination to which Jammu region is subjected to is that having more population and more area that Kashmir Valley it has less number of 37 Assembly seats in comparison to 46 of Kashmir Valley. |
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