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The ECI said that the political parties should have raised the issue of Electoral Roll error during the Claims and Objections period of past elections.
ECI reacts to Opposition’s electoral roll error charge (PTI Image)
As the Opposition targets the Election Commission of India over Bihar’s special intensive revision and “vote theft”, the poll body on Saturday said that the political parties should have raised the matter of errors in electoral rolls during the claims and objections period of elections held in the past.
It further said that the ECI shares electoral rolls with parties before any elections so that any errors, if genuine”, could be corrected before those polls.
In a statement, the Election Commission said, “Recently, some Political Parties and individuals are raising issues about errors in the Electoral Rolls, including those prepared in the past. The appropriate time to raise any issue with the Electoral Rolls would have been during the Claims and Objections period of that phase, which is precisely the objective behind sharing the Electoral Rolls with all Political Parties and the Candidates.”
“Had these issues been raised at the right time through the right channels, it would have enabled the concerned SDM EROs to correct the mistakes, if genuine, before those elections,” the statement added.
The Commission said that it welcomes the scrutiny of electoral rolls by political parties. “It will help SDMS/EROS to remove the errors and purify the Electoral Rolls, which has always been the objective of ECI,” it said.
The Election Commission will hold a press conference on Sunday.
This comes after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed what he called an “atom bomb” of evidence against the Election Commission. Using data from the Mahadevapura assembly seat in Bengaluru Central (in Congress-ruled Karnataka), he accused the Election Commission of working together with the BJP.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has also accused the ECI of conspiring to manipulate the voter list in Bihar by issuing two Elector Photo Identity Cards to BJP leaders and workers.
The ECI has dismissed the allegations and asked Rahul Gandhi to sign an affidavit to register a formal complaint — to which the Congress leader said that he had already sworn an oath to the Constitution of India.
Ashesh Mallick is a Sub-Editor with over three years of experience in news writing, video production. He primarily covers national news, politics and global affairs. You can follow him on Twitter: @MallickAshes…Read More
Ashesh Mallick is a Sub-Editor with over three years of experience in news writing, video production. He primarily covers national news, politics and global affairs. You can follow him on Twitter: @MallickAshes… Read More
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