Roughly a third of the 13,000 applications received by the Jharkhand chief electoral officer (CEO) for deletion of names from the electoral roll came from a single assembly seat in the eastern state, data showed on Thursday.
“We had submitted a memorandum that included a few issues including the one related to the Chatra assembly seat. We sought clarification transparently. The Jharkhand CEO has also sent a proposal to the poll panel for an extension in the period of notices and verifications as well publication of the revised electoral roll. “We are confident that the dates will be extended as a lot of work still needs to be done.
September 30 was the last date for filing applications for addition, objections, and claims for names deletion (due to various reasons). We were informed that a major reason for the big jump was due to applications for a change of booth,” said Shahdeo. Jharkhand flagged 4.36 million under logical discrepancies, according to data. The last date for logical discrepancy hearing is October 12. The final roll will be released on October 19. Kumar said more Form 7 would be generated during the verification process in other seats as well.
CEO K Ravi Kumar said the data was verified with the Chatra district administration and no anomaly was found. All BLOs now have to go door to door to clear all the notices and verify documents,” said Kumar.
A delegation led by Congress media co-incharge Kishore Nath Shahdeo met Kumar earlier this week.
