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Register with embassies, Ravi tells NRIs

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Vayalar Ravi says new legislation has been published in the gazette.

Thiruvananthapuram: Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi has appealed to Indian citizens living abroad to register their names with the embassies as a prelude to the implementation of the recent amendment to the Representation of People Act seeking to give Non-Resident Indians voting rights.

Addressing a meet-the-press programme organised by Thiruvananthapuram Press Club here on Saturday, Mr. Ravi said it was mandatory for them to register their names with the respective Indian embassies in the event of any complaints regarding their names in the voters list back home.

New legislation

The Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2010 seeks to provide that every citizen of India whose name is not included in the electoral roll and who has not acquired the citizenship of any other country and who is absenting from his place of ordinary residence in India owing to his conditions such as employment, education, shall be entitled to have his name registered in the electoral roll in the constituency in which his place of residence is mentioned in his passport.

Mr. Ravi said the new legislation had been published in the gazette. It was for the Election Commission of India to take necessary steps to implement this, he said. In reply to a question, he said the government had not fixed any specific date for beginning this process.

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