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Tamil Nadu Rural Development Minister and DMK elder person I. Periasamy connected Sunday urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to instrumentality stern enactment against Dindigul District Collector S. Saravanan and Tahsildar Muthumurugan, accusing them of not pursuing rules successful the ongoing electoral rotation Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout successful the district.
Addressing journalists successful Dindigul, Mr. Periyasamy said helium had received complaints from a ample conception of eligible voters from pockets specified arsenic Chinnalapatti and different segments successful Athur Assembly conception that their names person been removed arsenic ‘shifted’ from the constituency.
Minister said helium had instantly called Collector and informed him to guarantee the SIR workout was done successful a just and transparent manner. “What was the hurry to adjacent erstwhile December 4 (since extended) was the past date...” helium questioned. Mr. Periyasamy sought to cognize from the officials (Collector and Tahsildar) arsenic to who gave them the powers to enactment successful specified an ‘irresponsible manner’.
He said helium had learnt done galore booth agents that the Booth Level Officers (BLO) had reportedly described implicit 20,000 voters arsenic ‘shifted’ connected instructions from the Tahsildar and Collector.
“Out of astir 26,000 voters successful Chinnalapatti Town Panchayat, astir 7,200 eligible names of voters were termed arsenic ‘shifted’. The BLOs successful the municipality panchayat limits person received orders from the Tahsildar and the Collector to implicit the workout by contiguous (November 30)....” helium claimed.
Though the ECI had announced that peculiar camps would beryllium unfastened connected November 29 and 30 for radical to physically cheque and taxable applicable details, truthful that they tin guarantee that the names remained successful the elector list, the officials had not conducted the camp, Mr. Periasamy said.
The minister, who represents Athur Assembly, said helium is thoroughly alert of the constituency. A bulk of the voters are regular wage earners. Many others are engaged successful selling textile goods. They spell to antithetic towns for astir three-four days successful a week and instrumentality to their homes aft doing their businesses. When specified is the quality of enactment for the communal man, the officials had forced the BLOs to implicit the workout without adjacent knowing the basal principles. This is unfair and enactment should beryllium taken by the ECI against the Collector and Tahsildar, Mr. Periasamy stressed.
In each ward successful Chinnalapatti, the ECI should independently transverse cheque and see the names of the eligible voters. Such negligence whitethorn not person happened anyplace other successful Tamil Nadu and frankincense helium wanted justness astatine erstwhile for the radical and vowed to combat it with the people’s support.
