KAKINADA : State BJP president, N. Indrasena Reddy, has accused the State Government and the State Election Commissioner (SEC) of making the election process a mockery by making changes the electoral lists and reservations of MPTCs according to their whims while setting aside complaints from opposition parties.

Addressing a press conference on Sunday, he alleged that the State Election Commissioner was treating the elections as a ritual. He said the issuing of notification on election schedule in a hurry without giving time to people to enrol themselves was causing apprehensions among people.

Moreover, he alleged reservations made were kept secret and there was a variance in the voter list supplied to parties and those displayed at booths.

False promises

Ridiculing the election-eve promise of the Congress that it would decentralise powers and provide adequate funds to the local bodies, Mr. Reddy wondered what prevented them from implementing the same during the last two years. "It is nothing but luring voters with false promises," he remarked.

He reiterated his charge that the Congress was bent upon gaining control over the local bodies by the misuse of powers and cited the non-rectification of mistakes in the voters' lists after ZP elections as an example. On the Kakinada resolution of 1997 favouring a separate Telangana, Mr. Reddy said the BJP was still committed to it and sought to justify the delay , by blaming the TDP, their erstwhile ally.

He clarified that local election outcome had no relevance to the Telangana issue. BJP district president K Sarva Rayudu attended.

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