‘My name missing from draft voter list': Tejashwi Yadav questions EC; asks ‘how will I contest polls?'
PATNA: RJD leader
Tejashwi Prasad Yadav
on Saturday said his name is not in the draft voter list released by the
Election Commission of India
on Friday.
Addressing a press conference in Patna, Tejashwi said he had filled up the enumeration form during the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar.
'How will I contest the upcoming assembly elections?' He asked. The ruling JDU says Tejashwi is misleading the people.
"Almost 20 to 30 thousand names have been removed from every assembly constituency. A total of around 65 lakh, meaning about 8.5% of voters' names, have been removed from the list. Whenever the Election Commission issued an advertisement, it used to mention that so many people have shifted, so many people are deceased, and so many people had duplicate names," Tejashwi said.
"But in the list provided to us by the Election Commission, they have cleverly not given the address of any voter, no booth number, and no EPIC number, so that we cannot find out whose names have been removed from the voter list," he added.
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