Despite high turn-out, many voters left disgruntled
6 Dec 2013 5:10 AM IST
A large number of people were upset as their names were absent from the voters’ list.
‘In Rohtash Nagar constituency, around 1,200 voters were angry in Mansarovar Park area, as their names were marked as “deleted” on the list. When these voters gathered in large numbers and turned violent they were allowed to vote,’ said Ravinder Sharma, a supporter of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Alleging political conspiracy, the angry voters claimed that most of those whose names were marked as deleted were supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party. At the polling booth in Krishna Nagar opposite BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan’s clinic, around 25-28 persons fought with police personnel as their names were missing from the voters’ list.
Kewal Krishan (72), who recently underwent an open heart surgery but still came out to vote with his family, was shocked to see his name missing from the list. The names of all his family members were also not found on the list of registered voters.
Disgruntled voters stopped sector officer of Election Commission Devender Kumar’s car and asked him to address their problem. But Kumar managed to escape by saying, ‘I can’t help it! It’s not my concern. Contact the regional officer or district officer. At the last moment I don’t think that there will be any solution to it. It’s better for them to go back home.’
At Gandhi Nagar poll booth No. 59, the voters had to wait for more than two hours in a queue as there was only one booth with a single machine. At around 4 pm, when Arvinder Singh Lovely, the sitting MLA from Congress came to vote he confessed that the mismanagement caused to due to lack of staff at the polling booth might hamper his poll prospects.
At several booths where police officers were following proper guidelines issued by the Election Commission of not allowing voters to enter the polling booths with mobile phones, cameras and bags, several people were seen leaving without casting their votes.
‘In Rohtash Nagar constituency, around 1,200 voters were angry in Mansarovar Park area, as their names were marked as “deleted” on the list. When these voters gathered in large numbers and turned violent they were allowed to vote,’ said Ravinder Sharma, a supporter of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Alleging political conspiracy, the angry voters claimed that most of those whose names were marked as deleted were supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party. At the polling booth in Krishna Nagar opposite BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan’s clinic, around 25-28 persons fought with police personnel as their names were missing from the voters’ list.
Kewal Krishan (72), who recently underwent an open heart surgery but still came out to vote with his family, was shocked to see his name missing from the list. The names of all his family members were also not found on the list of registered voters.
Disgruntled voters stopped sector officer of Election Commission Devender Kumar’s car and asked him to address their problem. But Kumar managed to escape by saying, ‘I can’t help it! It’s not my concern. Contact the regional officer or district officer. At the last moment I don’t think that there will be any solution to it. It’s better for them to go back home.’
At Gandhi Nagar poll booth No. 59, the voters had to wait for more than two hours in a queue as there was only one booth with a single machine. At around 4 pm, when Arvinder Singh Lovely, the sitting MLA from Congress came to vote he confessed that the mismanagement caused to due to lack of staff at the polling booth might hamper his poll prospects.
At several booths where police officers were following proper guidelines issued by the Election Commission of not allowing voters to enter the polling booths with mobile phones, cameras and bags, several people were seen leaving without casting their votes.
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