Congress asks EC to defer Elections over ‘loopholes’ in voter list

Mumbai: The Congress party asked the election commission to postpone the BMC polls till the time the loopholes in the voter list aren’t fixed. Sheetal Mhatre, the women wing president of Mumbai Congress, had claimed that she had found huge mistakes in the voter list. After finding loopholes in the voter lists, she had written to the election commission, seeking postponement of the BMC elections.

In one of the wards, she claimed that voter list states that there is a population of around 58,000, but voters are more than 61,000. “There are some 1,200 names in the list with addresses as Borivali West. How am I suppose to find these voters. A voter list has to have all addresses,” she said.

She also alleged that even though the voter population expected in every ward is nearly 40,000 and above, however, in her own ward the number has reduced to around 24,000.

“I have written to the election commission stating that the BMC elections should be postponed until the time the gaffes in the voter list aren’t rectified. I submitted the letter to election commission on Monday,” she said.

Ms Mhatre claimed that her mother had got two voter id cards and one was without even applying for it. She has blamed the election commission for the mistakes.