A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation on Monday called on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Nasim Zaidi and election commissioners and appealed for a free and fair voting in Kerala and West Bengal Assembly polls scheduled this year.
The delegation, led by MoS for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, submitted a memorandum to Zaidi, demanding deployment of adequate security forces during the polls.
“Discrepancies on a large-scale have been found in voters’ lists published for 2016 in Kerala. For example, the population of Kerala is 3,34,06,061, according to the 2011 Census, but 2,56,27,620 have been shown in the voters’ list, which is impossible because people under 18 years of age were also included in the Census,” Naqvi said.
“Besides, 23.63 lakh non-resident Keralites have not been included in the voters’ lists. The BJP demands that these mistakes be rectified immediately and online voters registration should continue,” said Naqvi, who was accompanied by BJP general secretary Arun Singh, secretary Shrikant Sharma, spokespersons Sudhanshu Trivedi and Nalin Kohli.
The BJP delegation expressed that some parties might indulge in violence to disturb the election process in West Bengal.