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Political parties person asked the Election Commission of India (EC) to guarantee that electors are summoned for hearings lone successful unavoidable cases nether the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls successful Kerala.
The request came astatine the play governmental enactment gathering convened by Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar. Political parties raised the contented amid concerns that notices would beryllium issued connected a ample standard to electors successful the ‘no mapping’ database and successful cases wherever ‘logical discrepancies’ oregon inconsistencies person been detected successful the entries.
There are a small implicit 19.32 lakh electors successful Kerala successful the ‘no mapping’ list, meaning their details could not beryllium linked to the 2002 SIR list. Of this, notices for hearings person been generated successful the lawsuit of 17.71 lakh electors, portion they person been delivered successful 18,915 cases. Kannur has the highest fig of delivered notices with 3,632 and Thiruvananthapuram (314), the lowest.
“There should beryllium an statement wherever hearings are avoided successful cases wherever the elector submits capable documents and they are examined and recovered satisfactory astatine the level of the booth-level serviceman (BLO) oregon the electoral registration officer/assistant electoral registration serviceman (ERO/AERO),” M.K. Rahman who represented the Congress enactment told Saturday’s meeting.
Political parties wanted the EC to contented elaborate directions to the EROs/AEROs truthful that hearings are restricted to unavoidable cases. They besides repeated the request that authorised representatives beryllium allowed to look connected behalf of bedridden, aged and overseas electors.
While notices are to beryllium generated successful the cases of each electors successful the ‘no mapping’ list, the determination whether they should beryllium called for hearings rests with the ERO/AERO, Mr. Kelkar said. “They are Constitutional authorities and they determine whether a proceeding is needed oregon not. But we person issued a guidance to them that the hearings should beryllium held without causing inconvenience to the public,” Mr. Kelkar said. “The determination rests with the EROs/AEROs whether representatives tin look connected behalf of an elector who is incapable look successful idiosyncratic astatine the hearing. We tin lone usher them,” helium added.
EROs/AEROs person been asked not to make notices successful cases of ‘logical discrepancies’ (inconsistencies) specified arsenic sanction mismatches oregon property difference. These tin beryllium resolved done an undertaking fixed by the BLO. “We person issued a illustration of the undertaking to ERO/AERO, truthful that the BLOs tin springiness the undertaking to adjacent the matter,” helium said.
Political parties besides urged the EC to marque definite that household members are grouped unneurotic successful the electoral rolls. Several cases person travel to airy wherever they are scattered crossed polling stations, they said. D.K. Murali of the CPI(M) asked the EC to follow a “practical approach” and instrumentality the governmental parties into assurance successful conducting the SIR.
