The Hindu : TDP, BJP plead EC not to exclude genuine voters

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Friday, Jan 09, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

TDP, BJP plead EC not to exclude genuine voters

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JAN. 8. The TDP and the BJP have requested the Election Commission not to delete any genuine voters from the existing electoral rolls simply because the voter to population ratio exceeds 65 per cent.

A delegation of leaders belonging to both parties submitted a memorandum to a representative of the Chief Electoral Officer describing as baseless the figure given by the Congress that the all-India voter to population ratio was 60 per cent. The two parties also requested the EC not to delete voters from the category of residual voters simply because they had not turned up for photography. Door-to-door verification must be conducted to ensure that no genuine voter in this category was deleted.

Pointing out that the decadal population growth rate in AP had declined by 10.5 per cent from 1991 to 2001, the memorandum said it would not be justified to compare a State where the average population growth was 24 per cent and AP where it was around 13 per cent.

The delegation included the TD Parliamentary Party leader, K. Yerran Naidu, party vice-president, M. Jagannadh, spokesman, C. Ramachandraiah, the general secretary, M. A. Sharief, besides the BJP president, N. Indrasena Reddy, vice-president, S. V. Seshagiri Rao and the general secretary, K. Laxman.

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