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| Panthers leadershio demand revision of electoral rolls | | | Jammu, June 08
Top leadership of the
Jammu and Kashmir Panthers Party has now
raised a demand for timely completion of fresh
revision of electoral rolls ahead of 2008
Assembly polls.
Suggesting that the fresh revision of the
electoral rolls in Jammu and Kashmir should
be completed within next six months time
Leader of the Panthers Party in the state
Legislature, Mr Harsh Dev Singh, a former
Minister for Education, said today "the Election
Commission should start fresh revision of the
list of voters for the 87
Constituencies in the state right now so that
people could go through it at least six months
before the polling."
Harsh Dev Singh said that in the past
"summary
revision of the electoral rolls were carried out
with the result genuine voters were left out”
adding that whenever the fresh electoral rolls
were
made available for public scrutiny just a
fortnight before the polling dates it would leave
hardly any time for filing objections
and claims.
The Panthers Party leader said there was need for
"limiting the number of voters to 1000 in each polling
station in the urban belts and to 500 in the remote
rural areas." He said that this was needed to reduce
the level of inconvenience caused to voters who have
to wait for hours before getting a chance for casting
their votes.
He said that his personal experience has been that
voters in rural areas have to walk more than two kms
for reaching the polling stations and he has suggested
to the Chief Electoral officer to increase the number
of polling booths in the rural belts so that voters
could cast their votes in polling stations set up
Within one km radius
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