Polling agents of Congress party informed DNA that as many as 10 per cent people could not cast votes at Sunrise School. The seat has a high percentage of Muslim voters
Isolated cases of voters' name missing from the voters' list continued in the second phase of the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Gujarat. At the Sunrise School booth of Vejalpur constituency, over 10 per cent of the names of voters were found missing.
Polling agents of Congress party informed DNA that as many as 10 per cent people could not cast votes at Sunrise School. The seat has a high percentage of Muslim voters.
"Sunrise School has three booths, 208, 208 and 215. There are 3,772 voters across these booths. Around 470 voters were not able to cast votes as their names did not find mention in the voters' list. It was not that these are new voters or have never voted from the seat before. In fact, they were also carrying their voter IDs," said Taufik Modan, who managed the booth for Congress party.
Kureshi Abdulgafoor, who was not able to cast vote at the Sunrise School booth, showed his voter Identity Card to DNA and said he had the same fate in the last elections too.
Similar incidents were also reported from places where voters did even not get voting slips and had to run from pillar to post to hunt for the appropriate booth.
Speaking to DNA, Gujarat President for All India Rajiv Gandhi Brigade Kirti Vyas said 32 voters in Umasutnagar society in Vejalpur did not receive their voting slips. However, party agents at the booth guided them to proper places. Why do such incidents occur if the Election Commission of India had said it distributed voting slip door-to-door? Such voters find it difficult to go to their booth."
IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS
- Vishal and Anjali Solanki, both in their twenties, could not cast votes despite carrying their Aadhar cards to the polling booths. However, they did not have their Voter IDs. The duo said they came to vote and realised that they required their names in the voter list to be able to vote. Now, the two want to know the procedure to get a voter ID card.
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