Kohima, March 1 (MExN): The Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) Er. Kevisekho Kruse for 8-Western Angami Assembly Constituency today alleged that a total of 29 number of voters from were denied right of adult franchises on the Election Day on February 27.
“Only these 29 cases were detected so far but, it is suspected that there are many more such cases,” Kruse wrote in a complaint letter to the Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer, Kohima.
In this regard, the NDPP candidate further requested “the detail list of Officers/ Staff deputed for election duty” from the particular constituency and also the list of persons who casted their votes through “Postal Ballots and the uncasted ones.” A complaint letter on this matter has been submitted to the District Election Officer on 27/02/2018, he added.
According to the complaint letter, the the Presiding Officer, in all the cases, allegedly told that all their “votes have been marked as casted through postal ballot.”
“Many of the listed voters were not even allowed to cast Tender Votes (Challenge Vote). Also an FIR against such has been lodged in different Police Station within Kohima,” it said.
All the 29 voters who were denied from voting were not on election duty list and many of them are farmers, students and at least one of them is an expired person, it added.
Citing the instances as “evidences” and adding that it has “created a suspicion that there is a foul play” Kruse urged the DEO to “identify all postal ballots of persons not in duty list” under constituency and “to declare them null and void” and to give a chance to let the listed genuine voters to cast their votes before declaration of election results on March 3.
He further demanded “appropriate disciplinary action against the erring officials as per the relevant provisions of law.”
