From Our Correspondent
Agartala: In a surprising development, the number of voters of Tripura has been reduced from 21, 86,134 to 21, and 83,081 as per the draft publication of photo electoral rolls.
Publishing the photo electoral rolls for all 60 Assembly constituencies, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) KV Satyanarayan said that the number of electors has been reduced due to continue up-date process.
“As many as 3051 names have been deleted from the voters’ list by using E-clean software”, he said adding that the intensive revision of electoral rolls came into enforce from October 1.
Urging the voters for cooperation, the CEO said that the focus of the revision would on to prepare error-free photo electoral rolls. “ The Booth Level Officers (BLOs) along with Booth Level Agents (BLAs) will carry out special campaign on October 16, 23 and 30”, he said.
As per the revision schedule, claims and objections would be received by the designated officers from October 1 to November 10. The claims and objection would be verified on October 8 and 11 next. The claims and objections on the draft rolls would be disposed by December 5, 2011 next.
The updating the database, merging of photographs, updating the control tables and preparation and printing of supplementary list will be held between December 6 and 31 next. The final electoral rolls would be published on January 5, 2012 next.
Asked if the BLOs would face any problem due to the festival season, the CEO said that the Election Commission had extended the process for ten days keeping in mind of the festive season. “This will be enough for the persons associated with the task”, he claimed.
However , the 2013 Assembly elections will not take place on the final electoral rolls to be published on January 5, next year. Voters will get another chance to get their names included in the electoral rolls one mother time before the next Assembly elections.