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| Gupta demands extensive revision of electoral rolls | | | early time report
Jammu, Apr 25: Former Union Minister and M.L.A Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta has stressed the need for extensive revision of the electoral rolls to meet the ends of the Justice and fair elections.
Commenting on the media reports that summary revision of voter lists have been taken before the Civic elections, Prof. Gupta said that there are not only massive mistakes and howlers but large number of the names of the electorates are missing. . In addition to this, in certain wards the large number of fake voters has been mysteriously entered with obvious designs. In this regards he pointed out that in certain wards the number of electorates entered are more than the census population of 2011. He further said that in the voter lists of Srinagar Municipal Corporations of 68 wards there is a increase of 1 lakh 55 thousand voters than the last elections but in Jammu Municipal Corpora-tion having 71 wards there is increase of 17 thousand voters only. Prof. Gupta also pointed out that amazingly the number of electorates of Jammu district have decreased by 3% than the previous elections, but on the contrary the census figure of same district have marked the increase of two lakh.
He said in the presence of such glaring mistakes in the electoral rolls, the elections to the local bodies would not be more than that of a mockery.He also raised the questions about increasing of twelve local bodies in the valley raising the number from 34 to 46, but on the contrary only four local bodies have been added in Jammu region.This all happens when the Minister in charge of local bodies belongs to Jammu region. |
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