Aizawl: Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) on Monday mentioned that it’ll transfer the Gauhati High Court in opposition to the Election Commission for not facilitating voting for about 1,047 police personnel who had been deployed for ballot obligation in different states. They had did not forged their votes within the Lok Sabha polls held on April 19 within the state, the MPCC mentioned.
It mentioned that the occasion had on May 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 Commission is unlikely to rearrange voting services for the policemen, who didn’t forged in the course of the elections as a consequence of their deployment for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, the MPCC mentioned.
The occasion mentioned that it’ll file a Public Interest Litigation on the Aizawl bench of Gauhati High Court to make sure that the police personnel forged their votes earlier than the counting of votes.
Although they had been presupposed to train their franchise at facilitation centres, no such preparations could possibly be made for them as they needed to depart the state, earlier than the candidates could possibly be finalised, as a consequence of path from greater authorities, officers mentioned.
The state election division has claimed that it requested the Election Commission at the least two occasions to permit the police personnel to forged their votes for the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha seat.
However, the Central ballot panel rejected the requests, the CEO workplace within the state mentioned.
On Saturday, the People’s Conference (PC) occasion additionally wrote to the Election Commission principal secretary S B Joshi, urging the ballot panel to permit 1,047 policemen from Mizoram, to forged their votes.
The occasion blamed the authorities for failing to rearrange the Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) for the police personnel.
It mentioned that 1,047 votes may have a significant impression on the ballot ends in a small state like Mizoram.
