Bhopal News: Voters Classified As Shifted Approaching Booth-Level Officers; Asking Them To Re-Include Them In List | FP Photo
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The Booth Level Officers (BLOs) within the metropolis are being approached by voters categorised as ‘completely shifted’ to get their classification reversed. This follows the extension of the deadline for the completion of fieldwork for the continued Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by per week. The deadline of SIR has been prolonged from December 11 to 18.
BLOs say that voters categorised as ‘shifted’ are insisting that despite the fact that they not stay on the handle listed in opposition to their names within the voters’ lists, they need to proceed voting on the similar sales space.
‘Permanently shifted’ represent the most important chunk of the ‘Uncollectable’ voters. According to district election workplace knowledge, as many as 2,84,828 voters have completely moved out from their listed addresses. They kind 13.40% of the whole voters. Next are 1,08,993 (5.13%) voters who’re untraceable, and 32, 871 (1.55%) who’ve handed away. Voters who’re enrolled elsewhere, too, quantity 13,575 and so they kind 0.63% of the whole voters.
The whole variety of ‘Uncollectable’ voters (whose Enumeration Forms (EFs) couldn’t be collected resulting from totally different causes) is 4.34 lakh. They kind 21% of the voters, and their names is not going to determine within the Draft Voters List to be printed after the tip of the sector work.
Vikram Singh Prajapati, the BLO of a sales space in Railway Colony stated that greater than voters who weren’t discovered on the addresses and have been categorised as ‘shifted’ have approached him saying that they don’t stay within the polling sales space space however need to vote there. We are telling them that they need to get their names added to the record of the polling sales space within the space by which they stay however they aren’t able to hear,” he stated, including that they inform that Yes, I stay elsewhere however need to vote right here.
Upendra Kausal, a supervisor, additionally confirmed the identical. “The deadline has been prolonged and most of our work is over. But now, the BLOs are being approached by voters who need to get their names deleted from the ‘shifted’ record and added to the draft record,” he stated.
