Name of Harish Rawat, ex-Uttarakhand chief minister, ‘missing’ from voters' list
As the stage was all set for another electoral showdown between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Uttarakhand with the urban local body polls being held on Thursday, Congress leader Harish Rawat has raised concerns over missing names from voters list.
The former chief minister said he was waiting since morning to vote, but to his surprise, his name was not found at the polling station where he had voted in the Lok Sabha elections.
“They are now searching for it... let's see what happens. Election Commission officials have asked me to wait while they were checking. I should have been more alert, knowing that BJP is involved in adding and removing names from the voter list," Rawat alleged.
The elections are being held to 100 urban local bodies, including 11 municipal corporations, 43 municipal councils, and 46 nagar panchayats.
The polling being held by ballot will decide the fate of 5,405 candidates.
There are 72 candidates running for 11 mayoral posts, 445 for municipal council chairperson posts and 4,888 for municipal councillors' posts.
A total of 30,29000 voters are likely to participate in the polls to be held to 100 urban local bodies spread over 1282 wards in the state, Uttarakhand State Election Commissioner Sushil Kumar said.
There are 1,515 polling centres in the state and 3,394 polling booths, he said.
A total of 25,800 security and 16,284 polling personnel have been deployed to ensure free and fair polling, Kumar said. The counting will be done on January 25.
PTI inputs
