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| Decrease in Pandit voters part of conspiracy: allege KP leaders | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 18- Several Kashmiri Pandit organizations have alleged that sharp decline in the number of community voters was being manipulated under a conspiracy.
Explaining it senior All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference, H L Chatha, today said that the number of voters for the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency has kept on dwindling since the 1990 migration. He said the number of Pandit voters in several Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies should have been more than what it was in 1990.Citing an instance Chatha said that the Election Commission record reveals that the number of Pandit voters in Srinagar had gone down from 4, 50, 000 to over 27,000 which is unimaginable.
He said during the Assembly election held in November last he had made a consistent effort to register those whose names had not been enrolled in the voters list. He added that surprisingly that all these names do not figure in the revised electoral rolls. Chatha blamed the Election Commission for having made registration of Pandit voters a cumbersome process. He said that "we are being told to secure M form and later get this form attested by a concerned authority and so and so forth,” adding that migrants, who have been living a difficult circumstances during the last 20 years, were not prepared to bear the odds for getting their names registered.
General Secretary Panun Kashmir, Kuldeep Raina, said that the electoral rolls of Kashmiri Pandit migrants are an example of anomaly and manipulations .He said all these anomalies and contradictions could be resolved if a detailed census was carried out in various parts of the state and in different areas in the country. He said it was an instance of manipulation that the Election Commission record shows the number of voters in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency having gone up by over 1.20 lakh whereas the number of electors in the Jammu Lok Sabha constituency has gone down by over a lakh. He said this was neither tenable nor plausible as the number of voters in Jammu constituency should have registered bigger increase than the Srinagar constituency. He said that cumbersome process for registration of migrants in the voting list and manipulations have resulted in the decrease of Pandit voters from 1.35 lakh in Habba Kadal constituency to about 30,000.He wanted the Commission to carry out a detailed survey and registration of Pandit voters
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