Diezephe village sets example by deleting bogus and proxy names from E-Roll
Dimapur, September 17 (MExN): Setting an impressive example, Diezephe Village under Dimapur District has cleaned up its Electoral Roll (E-Roll) by deleting all the bogus and proxy names.
The Diezephe Village Council working in tandem with the SDO (Civil), Dhansiripar deleted 274 bogus entries out of the total 672 names in the village E-Roll leaving behind only 398 names of genuine voters, according to a press release from Media Cell, ACAUT Nagaland.
Chairman of Diezephe, Vesato Chuzho, while interacting with ACAUT members, said that the village council decided to take the momentous step as per the Clean Electoral Campaign of the State Election Commission and the Clean Election movement started by the NBCC, the release informed.
ACAUT Nagaland pointed out that this is the first time a village council in Nagaland has voluntarily decided to clean up its own E-Roll.
“What Diezephe village has done is transformational and counter to the prevalent culture of the day, where every single village in Nagaland is competing against their immediate neighbouring village by illegally enhancing their respective E-Roll population,” it stated.
Maintaining that Nagaland still has approximately 4,00,000 bogus and multiple names to be deleted from the E-Roll, ACAUT Nagaland noted that unless the deletion exercise is taken up voluntarily by all the 2500 odd villages, both the Clean Electoral Campaign of the State Election Commission and the Clean Election movement started by the NBCC will not be successful.
In this light, ACAUT appealed to all the village councils in Nagaland to follow the example of Diezephe village and Langpangkong Range, Mokokchung. “ACAUT feels that this is the only way the people can fight widespread corruption at the grassroots level, which will go a long way in battling the menace of corruption that has crippled our state,” the press release added.
