Booth Level Agent 2 Agents Turn Crucial for Parties in SIR
Parties train booth agents to protect votes and remove fake entries
Adilabad: Persons appointed as Booth Level Agent 2 (BLA2) will play a crucial role during the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls in Telangana, as they will be responsible for keeping the votes of their sympathisers intact and removing fake votes from the voter lists at the poll booth level.
Political parties must appoint BLA2 for all booths, and a list of their names along with phone numbers, three specimen signatures, and a photo should be submitted to the collector, who is the district elections authority.
The Congress is appointing sincere and committed party workers as the agents, and taking all precautions. The ruling party is conducting a special training programme for them in view of local body elections and Assembly and Parliament elections to prevent possible fraud in the voters’ lists by the opposition BJP.
Former Adilabad Market committee chairman Chilukuri Sanjeev Reddy was selecting party leaders, checking their background and commitment to the party, before appointing them as BLA 2 on behalf of the Congress. He said the party will lose if the BLA2 compromises with the opponent party on the votes in the respective polling booth.
He said they have appointed 40 BLAs 2 for the Adilabad Rural mandal and the applications will be submitted soon to the collector, and the district officials will appoint BLA 1. He said BLA 2 will coordinate with BLA 1 as far as the voters of the particular polling booth.
During DCC executive committee meetings, TPCC president B.Mahesh Kumar Goud instructed the Congress DCCs to appoint BLA2s carefully since they are crucial in the elections system and also in the party’s organisational setup.
He said Congress workers, especially those appointed as BLA2, must be cautious about the fake votes, removing the names of dead persons from the voters' list, duplicate voters, and voters having multiple voters in two places.
Mahesh Kumar Goud said lakhs of voters of persons who are sympathisers of the Congress were removed or missing from the voters' lists by the BJP, where it is in power.
Tudum Vinod of Chanda (T) village in Adilabad Rural mandal said they have to furnish all the details about their polling booth number and constituency number, and submitted his personal details, including polling booth number 289 for which he was appointed BLA 2 and Adilabad constituency number 7.
