Former MP contestant’s vote moved to Indore

Hyderabad: A denizens from the city who had contested for Hyderabad MP seat is in a rude shock, as she has discovered her name is not found in the list of electoral rolls of Hyderabad, but in Indore. Lubna Sarwath, General Secretary, Socialist Party (India) who has been running pillar to post to find out why her name was deleted from the list, ended up finding that via an official email from Election Commission of India (New Delhi) that she was shifted to 205 Indore Assembly constituency.

“Even as I am disillusioned and still waiting to see deleted voter list and I wanted to know why and when my name was deleted, I received email from ECI that I have been shifted to 205 Indore Assembly Constituency and I should pay Rs 25 and obtain my EPIC card and that my complaint is worth closing,” she bemoaned.

Lubna explained that the exercise was taken up by her from September 24 after she could not find her name in the latest list. When she asked to show the notices issued before deletions and documentation or supplementary rolls that records all the alterations made to electoral rolls, officials told her that no deletion list was available. “When I went to meet CEC Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat on 22 October 2018, with a representation, I was told that there is a protocol of meeting and only 9 'major' political parties were in the list and I was not eligible to meet him, as Socialist Party (India) is not a recognised party,” she recalled.

As an aggrieved, she held that ECI & CEO, Telangana, cracked this cruel joke on her. “One would only understand the pain when you are deleted unknowingly from any identity proof, an identity that has been used at high court entry, airports, train, at secretariat and where all required. Lakhs of authentic voters like me have faced the same fate. Many have not checked and BLOs have not reached them thus far,” she deplored.