Chandor voters agitate against anomaly in rolls
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, NOV 9
The ongoing summary revision of electoral rolls has left many a voter from two wards of Chandor village agitated as they have been registered in a different part in the rolls.
If locals are to be believed, around 450 voters from Igorjebhat and Culsabhat wards of the village have to literally face being shunted from one part to another for no faults of theirs.
A local resident Julio D’Silva said the voters from these two wards were initially enrolled in part 4 of Cavorim-Chandor and use dot vote at the polling booth set up in the Panchayat office. He, however, said that at the summary revision undertaken two years ago, the concerned officer has arbitrarily shifted these two wards to Part 8 and 9 coming under the neighbouring Guirdolim village.
Incidentally, this issue had figured at the gram sabha meeting held in May last, where the villagers had protested against the changes, prompting the authorities to shift the two wards back to Part 4 of the village Panchayat of Chandor.
“However, now that each polling booth is supposed to have not more than 1,000 voters, the voters from these two wards have been registered in Part 3 which had only 654 voters while after deleting their names from Part 4, the number of voters in Part 4 is 854. The catch is that these voters will have to travel nearly two kms to exercise their franchise as the polling booth for Part 3 is the government primary school building at Cotta while the Panchayat office is situated in Igorjebhat itself and Culsabhat is the adjoining ward”, D’Silva added.
Meanwhile, Voters from these two wards have strongly objected to shifting them to Part 3 and Cavorim Chandor Sarpanch Derrick Braganza Pereira said he would be demanding that they should not be shifted to any other part.
“I shall demand that the authorities set up an auxiliary polling booth for Part 4 so that the people find it easy to vote rather than having to travel such a huge distance,” he said.
Chandor voters agitate against anomaly in rolls
MARGAO, NOV 9 The ongoing summary revision of electoral rolls has left many a voter from two wards of Chandor village agitated as they have been registered in a different part in the rolls.
