A public interest litigation (PIL) will be filed on Monday in the Bombay High Court over the thousands of names reportedly missing from Mumbai voters list.
Thousands of people have gone to cast their votes in Mumbai on Friday to find out their names were missing on the voters list.
Many eminent Mumbaikers including HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh’s name were not listed on the voters list.
“My name is not in the voters list. I have always cast my vote from here. I kept waiting for my voter card and that did not arrive,” Deepak Parekh told reporters.
The situation is more or less same in all over Maharashtra including Aurangabad, Nashik and Pune. More than 1 lakh names were reportedly missing in Pune. The BJP has demanded re-polls in Pune.
BJP activist Vyomkesh Panchamatia said he will file a PIL against the election commission.
“Scores of residents found their names missing from the list. People whose names were there in the electoral rolls for the previous Lok Sabha, assembly and civic polls were all of suddenly missing. So, we protested the same at the assistant returning official’s centre at Sahkar Nagar in Wadala, where we met with arrogant staffers who refused to co-operate. So, we are taking up the issue before the HC. We are also going to seek a re-election,” Panchamatia said.
Slamming the Mumbai voters who have complained that their names were missing in the voters list, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said, they should have checked earlier.
“I don’t understand why corporates are complaining about their names missing from the electoral list. They could have checked it before the voting day. Don’t they check their name on the list before boarding an international flight? I can understand if slum dwellers make such complaints,” Chavan said in a TV interview.
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