Administration turns a blind eye to entire families missing from voterlist, including AAP candidate's family
Hundreds of voters ran from pillar to post looking of their names in electoral list, some celebs also face hurdles
Pune: Majority of the voters, along with their families, visited their respective polling stations in gusto to cast their votes. But for thousands of voters, joy turned into despair and disbelief as they tried in vain to hunt their names on voting lists. People were running pillar to post find out the reasons for their missing names, as the administration turned a blind eye. Not just the common man, but some celebrities too found their names deleted from the voting lists.
In the Camp area, nearly 210 residents found their names missing from the voters' list. Despite the facility of form 7 (meant for addition and deletion of names in the list) being made available there, the polling officers could do little to help. The citizens then headed to the district collector office. Manoj Oswal, a resident of MG Road who was part of the group said, " Despite having a voter's card, I could not vote as my name wasn't there in the list. It was only my brother who could vote in this election."
Kothrud-resident Shraddha Vikas Naik, who currently lives in Bangalore travelled to Pune to cast her vote but was shocked when she couldn't find her name in the list. "I have voted several times in past and three days ago I came to Pune so I could cast my vote. But today it was after reaching polling booth that I realised my trip was in vain."
Monika Chaudhari and her husband Rashbihari Rao Chaudhary had to scour through several polling booths, as officials kept shunting them from one booth to another. With valid voting cards in their hands, they couldn't find their names anywhere. Their names appeared on the online list at RIMS International school on NIBM Road, but the list with the polling officers didn't show their names.