Over 20 lakh youth apply for inclusion in polls in Nov-Dec alone
With just three more months to go for the Election Commission to release the schedule for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections, youngsters, who have crossed 18 years of age are showing keen interest in submitting Forms 6 seeking inclusion of their names in the photo electoral rolls.
By : migrator
Update: 2020-12-16 19:17 GMT
Chennai
According to rough estimates, the public election department has received more than 20 lakh Form 6 in the month of November – December from the public and there was good response to the week end special summary camps held by the civic bodies across the state.
Chief Electoral Officer Sathyabrata Sahoo said a total of 29 lakh forms have been received during the summary revision. A total of 20,62,424 Form 6 have been received and close to 4 lakh forms seeking deletion of names have been received, the CEO said.
According to public election department sources the final list of voters is to be released by next month. Earlier this year, 14 lakh people submitted various forms seeking inclusion and deletion of names into the voter’s rolls.
There is a good response to the recently conducted special camps from public and the political parties. To ensure the enrolment of new voters for the next year polls the political parties are also hyper active this season, official sources said.
As usual Salem, Chennai, Thanjavur and Cuddalore have received good response in the voters’ special summary camps held on Saturday and Sunday.
GCC allows parties to check genuineness of over 1.25 lakh Form-6 received in special camps
Political parties have demanded that the Greater Chennai Corporation allow them to check the veracity of the over 1.25 lakh applications received at the special camps alonein the city for inclusion in the electoral list. The civic body heeded to the demand and ordered the officials to show the details to the party representatives.
In a meeting held in Ripon Buildings with the representatives of the political parties,Chennai Corporation Commissioner G Prakash gave assurance that the representatives would be allowed to check the details before finalising the electoral roll of each of the 16 Assembly constituencies.“At the meeting itself, an order was given to the assistant returning officers to show the details of newly added names.
The party representatives opined that they could not remove the fake names from the list once the final electoral list is released. If they are allowed to view the list before finalising, fake names can be removed at the assistant revenue officers level,” a Chennai Corporation official, who had taken part in the meeting said.It may be noted that the civic body received 1,25,010 Form-6 applications to include names in four-day special camps conducted on weekends. Political parties become wary as the number of Form-6 applications is several times higher than the usual. Between February to November, the civic body received only 14,000 Form-6 applications.
Meanwhile, the political parties are allowed to visit the warehouse in Puzhal, wherethe electronic voting machines are stored and inspect the machines.In total, the Chennai Corporation has 10,214 ballot units and 7,810 control units. Of the total machines, 4,320 ballot units and 5,820 control units were brought from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.“The city has only around 3,750 polling booths and each polling booth requires one control unit. We have double the number of control units actually required,” an official said.
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