NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress on Monday expressed dissatisfaction with the Election Fee’s response on the duplication of voter card numbers, saying the ballot panel should settle for the error inside 24 hours. Addressing a press convention right here, TMC Rajya Sabha Parliamentary Get together Chief Derek O’Brien mentioned if the EC fails to do it, the get together would come out with extra paperwork on the difficulty on Tuesday morning.
O’Brien, together with TMC Rajya Sabha deputy chief Sagarika Ghose and Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azad, displayed lists with particulars of voter id playing cards with the identical EPIC quantity, and mentioned most of them had been from states dominated by the BJP. “We wish solely residents of a state to vote in that state. Solely voters of Bengal to vote in Bengal… Voters won’t be allowed to vote as their votes shall be forged by folks with an identical EPIC numbers,” O’Brien mentioned.
“These folks shall be sneaked in from different states to vote. That is unacceptable,” he added. Amid stories flagging issuance of an identical voter card numbers to electors in two completely different states, the EC on Sunday mentioned it is going to rectify the difficulty and in addition replace its technology-driven platform. The ballot authority asserted that whereas the elector photograph identification card (EPIC) numbers of a few of the voters “could also be an identical”, the opposite particulars, together with demographic particulars, meeting constituency and polling sales space, are completely different.
Terming it an “Epic Rip-off”, O’Brien alleged that the ballot panel issued the assertion after the TMC introduced that it was going to carry a press convention on the difficulty. “Restricted appreciation to the EC. I say restricted as a result of EC is admitting the error however not accepting the error,” he mentioned. “Within the subsequent 24 hours, we humbly ask the EC to additionally settle for the error. If not, we’ll share a doc at 9 am on Tuesday morning,” he mentioned.
The TMC leaders additionally demanded an in-depth probe into this. The EC on Sunday mentioned an identical EPIC numbers or collection had been allotted to some electors from completely different states and Union territories as a result of a “decentralised and handbook mechanism” being adopted previous to shifting of the electoral roll database of all states to the ERONET (Electoral Roll Administration) platform.
