Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 25: Former Union Minister and MLA Prof Chaman Lal Gupta has stressed the need for exclusive revision of the electoral rolls to meet the ends of justice and fair elections in the State.
Commenting on the media reports that summary revision of voter lists has taken place before civic elections, Prof Gupta said that there are not only massive mistakes and discrepancies in voters lists but large number of names of voters are also missing.
In addition to this in certain wards the large number of fake voters have been enrolled with malicious designs, he added.
In this regard Prof Gupta pointed out that in certain wards the number of electorates are more than the census population of 2011, adding in the voters lists of 68 wards of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), there is increase of one lakh and 55 thousand voters than the last elections while in Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) having 71 wards there is only increase of 17 thousand voters.
Prof Gupta also pointed out that amazingly the number of electorates of Jammu district has decreased by three percent than the previous elections but on the contrary the census figures of same district have marked the increase of two lakh.
He said in presence of such glaring mistakes in the elections to the local bodies would not be more than that of a mockery. He also raised the question of increasing of 12 local bodies in Kashmir whose number increased from 34 to 46 and on contrary only four local bodies have been added in Jammu region. This all happened when the Minister of Local bodies belonged to Jammu region, he added.
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