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BJP MLA Abhay Patil has complained that the Election Commission of India’s electors mapping workout is not being decently conducted successful parts of Belagavi district.
He told reporters successful Belagavi connected Tuesday that helium volition nonstop a written ailment to the ECI bureau successful New Delhi and Bengaluru.
He said that astatine a peculiar gathering of the Belagavi City Corporation connected Monday, respective members complained to him that names of respective thousands of their voters person been near unmapped.
“I person besides received akin complaints from assorted enactment functionaries successful the district. I deliberation lone astir 20% of the names person been mapped successful the past 3 months successful Belagavi city. In my Assembly constituency of Belagavi South, 60,000 names person been near retired from the archetypal circular of mapping. I person recovered retired that the booth level officials (BLOs) are not doing their occupation properly. They are not going connected doorway to doorway visits. Instead, they are calling electors to venues similar anganwadis, schools and temples and past marking them arsenic voted successful the past elections oregon not voted, arsenic the lawsuit whitethorn be. The names of those who did not be specified unofficial meetings person been near out. According to him, the BLOs are lazy and lethargic and are not superior astir their responsibilities. I person the names of each the BLOs who are not moving properly. I volition record complaints with their names,” Mr. Patil said.
He said that immoderate metropolis corp members told him that immoderate BLOs person near retired the names of full colonies oregon communities successful immoderate areas from the mapping exercise.
“This is unacceptable,” the MLA said.
Some members person demanded that mapping should beryllium done based connected Elector’s Photo Identity Card and not their residential address. This proposition volition beryllium sent to the ECI, helium said.
Deputy Mayor Vani Vilas Joshi told him that immoderate BLOs person confided successful her that they did not person mobile phones to download the mapping mobile applications oregon did not cognize however to usage them.
She demanded that BLOs beryllium fixed further training.
Some metropolis corp members person told the MLA that the BLOs should beryllium instructed to sojourn doorway to door, on with the jurisdictional metropolis corp members successful antithetic areas.
“All these volition beryllium communicated to the ECI,” Mr. Patil said.
