Statesman News Service
MALDA, Jan.11. — The Election Commission observer for Malda, Mr D Singh, met leaders from various political parties today and directed them to freely lodge complaints about discrepancy in the electoral roll. Mr Singh heard views of all political leaders on the electoral roll revision issue and sought opinion and ideas for conducting the electoral roll revision, timely distribution of voters’ photo identity cards and deletion of duplicate names and also the names of deceased persons from the list.The EC observer was surprised to find low percentage of enlisted voters in comparison to the population in Malda district. Political leaders, including those from the CPI-M, urged the EC observer to conduct a thorough inquiry before distributing “Form -7” for the deletion of voters’ names from the electoral rolls. Mr Singh also checked the documents relating to the electoral roll revision of the Gazole block, which is also the biggest block in the state. Tomorrow, Mr Singh is scheduled to meet the development officers from all the 15 blocks and assistant electoral registration officers. “The EC observer has also expressed a wish to visit the areas close to the Indo-Bangladesh border,” informed an district electoral official. Till 16 January, the EC observer will visit different areas in the Malda district to review the electoral roll revision process. The Trinamul Congress brought to the notice of EC observer some government orders in recent past for the completion of the developmental works pending for last five years. Mr Singh told the Trinamul leaders: “Other observers, who will visit Malda latter will look into this subject. This matter is not related to the electoral roll revision and therefore, I can not comment on it”.
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