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A Sivaganga Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) campaigner and her hubby were engaged in a heated argument at District Collector’s bureau present connected Monday aft discovering that their names person not been added to the voters’ database but alternatively included successful the database of deceased persons.
As the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is underway crossed the State with a deadline until December 11 for receiving the filled-in enumeration forms, the draught elector database is scheduled to beryllium published connected December 16.
As the dates person neared, the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) have currently begun digitising the completed forms.
Furthermore, the tentative database of names to beryllium removed owed to reasons similar death, imperishable relocation, oregon duplicate entries is being provided to the authorised governmental enactment agents for each polling booth, and objections are being received.
In this situation, the names of Hinduja, who has been announced arsenic the NTK campaigner for the Sivaganga Assembly Constituency, and her hubby Ramesh, the party’s State Coordinator, were recovered connected the database of deceased persons.
The infuriated couple arrived astatine the Sivaganga District Collector’s bureau yesterday with their enactment members and subsequently laid siege to the District Collector K. Porkodi and engaged successful a fierce argument.
They complained that owed to the deficiency of grooming for staff, the SIR had not been carried retired properly.
“I person adjacent complained already astir the improper enumeration process going connected successful respective villages. But now, a party candidate’s name itself is being removed is precise suspicious,” Mr. Ramesh claimed.
He alleged that their names were being removed to forestall the campaigner from contesting. They further claimed that the names of galore different radical were also being removed.
In response, the Collector said, “We are lone receiving objections connected the tentative database of names to beryllium removed, which has been fixed to the polling booth agents. The draught elector database volition lone beryllium published aft an enquiry is conducted based connected these objections and enactment is taken. Your names volition decidedly beryllium added to the elector list. If immoderate different names person been wrongly removed, delight supply evidence, and we volition correct them.”
As the petitioners continued to prosecute successful arguments, Ms. Porkodi ordered enactment against the BLO and further instructed the Revenue Divisional Officer to behaviour a due enquiry to guarantee the names of 2 individuals were added to the elector list.
