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| Cumbersome process of voting main cause of low percentage by migrants | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 12: The failure of Government to make polling for displaced Pandits smooth by doing away with cumbersome process of voting has been main cause of low percentage of voting by Kashmiri migrants putting up at Jammu and other parts of the country.
According to source the Kashmiri migrants have petitioned before Election Commission of India several times in last two decades demanding making the election process smooth for them but the Government has failed to look into the issue to ensure hundred percent voting by Kashmiri migrants.
Sources said displaced Pandits have accused the Government of deliberately creating obstacles for migrants to debar their total participation in democratic process after their displacement from the Valley.
The Pandits said that their demand of Constituencies in exile has not been accepted by them. Criticising the Government, the Kashmiri Pandits alleged that it is a deliberate attempt of Government to debar Pandits from political empowerment.
Sources said that BJP representatives have assured the migrants this time that they will get the election procedure simplified this time but their efforts also failed to yield results.
Upto last time some BJP leaders had given the impression that the ECI will do away with M Forms this time but except announcing a new scheme of voting the ECI failed to do away with M Forms and Form 12_C with the result the old procedure has to remain intact.
The Pandits said that instead of asking filling up M Forms, the Government should have opened Polling stations on every Zonal office where the migrants are registered because entire data of migrants is available in the Zonal offices.
Instead of applying this formula the ECI is adamant on old procedure assigning some legal aspects. But Government could have simplified the procedure by introducing some amendment in the law to ensure the voting by exiled people from Valley so that they can also take part in democratic process.
Moreover the Government should start a fresh exercise of enrolment of migrants constituency wise. The migrant voters number in entire Valley as per available data is 99000 when the same could be about two lakh in entire Valley. The migrants said that the revision of voter lists on foolproof basis be made so that real picture will become visible |
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