As per the direction of the election commission of India, draft publishing and handling out of draft Electoral Roll to the political parties was done today, in presence of press, media, church members, NGOs and civil societies.
Asserting that E-Roll was the holy book for the politicians and political parties, the DC Mon urged upon them to take keen interest during summary revision. However, the DC lamented that voters, politicians and political parties gave lesser importance during such revision, conducted every year. In this regard, the DC urged upon the political parties to take active participation and appoint Block Level Agents (BLA) to help the BLO in verifying the genuine voters
Informing that voter ID card was an important document not only to exercise their franchise, but also to verify and identify the genuineness of the person and other important purposes.
Informing that wrong notion/information were being spread that there would be delimitation of constituent A/C if there were lesser voters, the DC and DEO Mon said that any kind of delimitation depended on general population and not on voter’s population or E-Roll; moreover, the delimitation had to be passed in the legislative assembly. Therefore he urged upon all the political parties, churches, NGO’s and civil societies to help spread awareness on maintaining actual voter’s record.
Meanwhile Akito, AEO Mon briefed on the importance of BLA, who plays an important role in identifying the genuine voters at various block level. He informed that it was these BLA who apart from identifying the voters, also checked on the BLO whenever proxy voters were enlisted or side with one political party. Further informing that no claims and objection would be entertained after October 30, he urged upon all political parties to file their claims and objection before the scheduled date.