Several residents of sectors119, 120, 121 and 137 of Noida will not be able to exercise their voting rights this assembly elections, as their names haven’t appeared in the revised electoral rolls released last week.
According to the revised electoral rolls, the total number of voters of Gautam Budh Nagar district now stands at 12,75,394. This includes 58,930 new voters; 35,919 names have been deleted from the voter list.
Residents complained that despite having submitted the necessary forms and documents to their respective booth level officers during the enrolment drive, they still had not received election cards.
Parag Singhal, a resident of Eldeco Aamantran Apartments in Sector 199, said he had also applied on behalf of his wife but received only one election card. Moreover, his wife's name was absent from the revised electoral rolls.
Umesh Bansal, another resident of the society, said he had visited the nearest polling station in the government-run primary school at Parthala-Khanjarpur village to get details of his polling station, but did not receive a satisfactory answer from the officer. He said booth-level officers for his ward, No 399, were not present at the polling station when he visited the school.
Karan Bahl, a resident of RG Residency, a society in Sector 120, said many residents were not aware of the enrolment process either. He said more than 200 residents had started living in the society but most were clueless about their polling stations.
Sanjeev Dixit, a resident of Ajnara Homes 121, in Sector 121, said his society, being one of the bigger apartment complexes, needed a more organised enrolment drive to cater to all residents of the society. He said the society had 1,724 flats and more than 1,500 families. "I would like to request the returning officer to organise a camp for the society," he added.
According to a source at the district election commission, Noida, a daylong enrolment camp had been organised in November last year, when the revision of electoral rolls had kicked off. It had received about 400 applications from society residents. But the camp could not be continued for more than a day because of a fight that broke out at the venue. The source revealed that only 154 voter names had appeared in the revised electoral rolls and 57 voter ID cards had been distributed. The officer said it was expected that the remaining would receive their ID cards by January 20.
Amit Kumar Singh, SDM (Dadri), said he had organised enrolment camps in most societies. He said that after the revised electoral rolls were printed, he had given residents another chance to submit the filled-in forms for inclusion, deletion or correction of details. Singh, however, said he was helpless, as the last date was January 16.
