Times of India: Pune: Wednesday,
April 23, 2014.
District
collector Saurabh Rao on Tuesday said he will submit a report about the names
missing from the voters' list to the chief electoral officer (CEO) Maharashtra
in two days.
"We have
already initiated scrutiny of all complaints received in last four days. A
report based on the facts will be prepared and submitted to the CEO by
Thursday. The report will then be sent to the election commission," Rao
said.
Thousands of
voters in the city failed to cast their votes for the Lok Sabha poll on April
17 as they could not find their names in the electoral rolls. They had agitated
at the Council Hall, following which the district collector appealed to them to
file written complaints.
The
administration, till Monday, had received 586 written complaints from citizens.
Thirteen complaints were received through e-mails and 10 complaints were
received in the form of applications under the Right to Information (RTI) act.
A total of 1,253 voters registered grievances with the administration.
"While
most complaints are pertaining to missing of names from the list, there are
some complaints about names not included in the electoral roll despite
submission of prescribed form and some names missing when names of other family
members are listed in the roll. Every complaint is a unique case. Hence, we are
investigating each case to ascertain the reasons," Rao said.
Among the six
assembly constituencies in Pune Lok Sabha constituency, most complaints were
from Kasba Peth (112), followed by Pune Cantonment (107), Parvati (96), Kothrud
(80), Shivajinagar (45) and Vadgaon Sheri (27).
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