Date:30/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/30/stories/2007123052830400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Let there be no missing names in voters’ lists: Poojary

Special Correspondent

Bangalore: The former Union Minister B. Janardhana Poojary, MP, on Saturday appealed to Governor Rameshwar Thakur and the Election Commission to ensure that the names of all voters in the State were included in the electoral rolls before the Assembly elections.

Speaking to presspersons here, Mr. Poojary, a former president of the KPCC, said it was a common complaint of names missing from the voters’ list, depriving people the right to exercise their franchise.

The Congress leader cited the example of Ullal Assembly constituency, where, according to him, 15,000 voters could not vote in the last elections.

In the Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency, Mr. Poojary said that 28,000 names were removed from the electoral rolls while 24,000 were added.

He had lost the elections by a margin of only 3,600 votes.