NPCC president, K. Therie Monday said the publication of Photo Electoral Roll by State Chief Election Office was “laudable achievement”, but lamented that electoral roll pages were found to be “mermaid with irregularities in all polling stations”.
Therie pointed out that more than two thirds (2/3) of the electoral roll were by way of bogus enumeration, duplication, multiplication, impersonation and enumeration of under-aged in all polling stations.
He said enumerators and officers related in registering voters were cheating “with the knowledge to cause wrongful loss” to the democratic state and candidates.
Pointing out that the registration of voters in two or more polling stations was cheating and dishonest, he cautioned the concerned public servants and the officers supervising electoral registration as well as the errant voters would be liable to be charged under IPC 176, 171D, 416, 418 and 420.
To this, the NPCC president has suggested four points.
Firstly, he suggested CEO Nagaland to give opportunity to all enumerators, officers and voters to voluntarily correct/delete within a given time-frame as deemed fit and proper. Secondly, qualifying voters of Nagaland have been asked to display “Christian honesty” and be faithful to oneself, for the country and to God.
In the third point, he asked CEO to print out clear copies for all political parties and make available at the earliest.
Lastly, the NPCC president suggested political parties resolved and “raise objection” on all bogus enumerations, duplications, multiplications, impersonations, fictitious names, inclusion of under-aged and give all efforts to clean the Photo electoral roll taking the advantage of photographs.