Aizawl: Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) on Monday mentioned that it’s going to transfer the Gauhati Excessive Court docket towards the Election Fee for not facilitating voting for about 1,047 police personnel who have been deployed for ballot responsibility in different states. That they had did not solid their votes within the Lok Sabha polls held on April 19 within the state, the MPCC mentioned.
It mentioned that the celebration had on Could 13 written to the state chief electoral officer (CEO) asking him to take steps in order that the policemen may train their franchise.
As per the reply of the CEO, the Election Fee is unlikely to rearrange voting services for the policemen, who didn’t solid through the elections as a result of their deployment for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, the MPCC mentioned.
The celebration mentioned that it’s going to file a Public Curiosity Litigation on the Aizawl bench of Gauhati Excessive Court docket to make sure that the police personnel solid their votes earlier than the counting of votes.
Though they have been purported to train their franchise at facilitation centres, no such preparations might be made for them as they needed to depart the state, earlier than the candidates might be finalised, as a result of course from larger authorities, officers mentioned.
The state election division has claimed that it requested the Election Fee not less than two instances to permit the police personnel to solid their votes for the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha seat.
Nonetheless, the Central ballot panel rejected the requests, the CEO workplace within the state mentioned.
On Saturday, the Individuals’s Convention (PC) celebration additionally wrote to the Election Fee principal secretary S B Joshi, urging the ballot panel to permit 1,047 policemen from Mizoram, to solid their votes.
The celebration blamed the authorities for failing to rearrange the Electronically Transmitted Postal Poll System (ETPBS) for the police personnel.
It mentioned that 1,047 votes could have a significant impression on the ballot ends in a small state like Mizoram.
