Party BLAs, DCC presidents told to protect genuine voters
ADILABAD: The Congress is focusing its attention on a high number of anomalies, ASDD (absent, shifted, deceased and duplicate) voters and uncollectable votes found during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in the erstwhile Adilabad district.
The party would instruct its BLAs and DCCs to ensure that genuine voters’ names are not deleted, by checking the draft voters lists after their publication and taking up such names for inclusion.
District in-charge minister Jupally Krishna Rao will review the situation and give directions to the party BLAs, coordinators and DCC presidents on how to avoid any loss of votes for the party in future polls, despite the SIR.
The meeting assumed importance in the wake of the election commission planning to publish the electoral draft on August 17.
Electors will be given an opportunity to apply for inclusion if they do not find their names of eligible voters in the SIR draft. They can also fill Form 8 for permanent shifting of their vote from one place/booth to another.
Nirmal district has a total of 264670 electors. Among them, 219763 enumeration forms have been distributed.
There are a total of 44,307 uncollectable enumeration forms, which comes to 16.78 per cent, including those of the 9,101 deceased, 14647 permanently shifted voters, 6967 already enrolled voters and 13,547 absent in the total 2,19,763 distributed enumeration forms in the Nirmal district.
The Adilabad assembly constituency has a total 250393 voters. Among them, 38,668 are found ASDD, including 9,984 absent, 18,557 shifted, 5,834 deceased and 4,181 duplicate.
While there are a total of 2,16,391 voters in Boath assembly constituency, there are 23,551 ASDD names-- among them 865 absent, 174 shifted, 7,520 deceased and 3,376 duplicate.
In Mancherial assembly constituency, some 66578 voters were found with uncollectable enumeration forms out of a total of 216721 voters in the digitised format, whereas the total electors are 283299.
As many as 23201 UEF voters were found out of the total 226680 forms distributed in the Asifabad assembly constituency.
Pasula Chanti, Congress coordinator for SIR for Boath assembly constituency, quoted top officials of ITDA, Utnoor, as saying the machine detected anomalies when the BLOs uploaded the details of the electors as part of the SIR process, and that the officials can’t do anything to rectify them.
He said many BLOs and BLAs didn’t have full knowledge of the SIR process vis-à-vis collection of details of electors.
