Additional Deputy Commissioner & Electoral Registration Officer, Kohima, Lithrongla Tongpi held a meeting with the recognized political parties, NGOs, civil societies and media at DC’s Conference Hall, Kohima on October 1, in connection with the conduct of Special Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls.
According to DIPR report, ERO, Lithrongla announced the draft publication of Electoral Rolls and said that starting from October 1 to 31 there would be a period for filing of claims and objections. Informing that there would be a special campaign dates with BLAs of political parties for receiving claims and objections on October 8 to 22, she said that the political parties were supposed to appoint the BLA in a prescribe Form ID:BLA 2 from each polling booth/stations who would be associated with the special campaign for Roll Revision process on special campaign dates along with BLO.
On the special campaign dates, the BLO would go through the draft electoral roll with BLAs and identify the corrections etc. She also requested the political parties to inform their BLAs to see that disabilities people above 18 years of age should be enrolled since many a time such cases have been missed out. She also pointed out that not a single NRI was registered in Electoral-Roll, knowing that many of our people stays abroad, in this regard she requested the political parties to indentify how many NRI were there in their respective constituencies for enrollment. In regard to BLAs submission of application forms, she said that the BLAs can submit the application Forms in bulk with a maximum number of 10 Forms at a time, which they could submit three times a month with a maximum total of 30 Forms during the entire period from October 1 to 31.
Assistant Election Officer, Mhathung Ngullie who also spoke in the meeting said that the involvement of political parties, NGOs, civil societies, individual was required in order to create awareness on the conduct of this special summary revision of E-Roll in order to clean our Electoral Roll and have peaceful Election in near future. He informed that for the new electors who were being enrolled in the E-roll this time, EPIC Photo would be distributed in the month of October by the BLOs where the AEO requested all the political parties, BLOs and BLAs to carried out in good manner.
During the meeting the representatives of the political parties and NGOs cleared their doubts from the Electoral Registration Officer and Assistant Election Officer.