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Opposition team to meet CEC on bogus voters issue

HYDERABAD Jan. 6. A delegation of Opposition parties will visit Delhi soon and submit a memorandum to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) seeking completion of the process of eliminating bogus voters from the electoral rolls before the coming elections.

Informing this to reporters here on Tuesday, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president, K. Chandrasekhara Rao, said that leaders of the Congress, the CPI, the CPI (M), the TRS, the MIM, the BSP and a few other parties would meet the CEC and request him to get the voters' list in every village approved by the respective gram sabha so that free and fair elections could be held.

Declaring that Opposition parties would continue their fight till the names of bogus voters were completely deleted, he said the State Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) statement that 12 lakh bogus votes were already deleted and that another 27 lakh were ineligible showed the gravity of the situation.

Referring to the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu's criticism of Opposition parties for organising a protest rally on bogus voters issue, he said it only showed his frustration. He charged Mr. Naidu with being keen on early elections "as he wanted to retain power through bogus votes." He alleged that the Chief Minister had given a go-by to all moral values and was misusing the official machinery by spending crores of rupees for propaganda. He also accused him of using the Government helicopter for attending party rallies at Visakhapatnam and Kurnool by including official programmes in the itinerary.

He said elections would throw up a hung Assembly and no single party would be able to form a Government on its own. Mr. Rao, who is also convenor of the National Front for new States, said that the Front would soon meet in Delhi to chalk out the strategy for elections.

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