Former MLA Ramadas alleged various discrepancies in the voters list produced for the upcoming corporation elections, in Mysore on Thursday.
Speaking at a press meet, he said that he had sent a petition recently to the Election Commission, which in turn has ordered the Deputy Commissioner to send a report on the alleged irregularities, after conducting an enquiry in this regard.
He said that in the voters list of the three constituencies - Chamaraja, Krishnaraja and NR Mohalla, as well as parts of Chamundeshwari constituencies, voters lists had bogus names, and the genuine voters had been left out of the list. Also, the rotation of reservation in each ward was not being followed, he alleged. The report and the revised list have to be sent within September 3, he added. If the district administration is not able to send a report on the enquiry, to the election commission in time, then the corporation elections will not take place at the scheduled date, which is by the end of September, he said.
In event of this, he said he would move to the High court with a writ petition. The voters’ list of the 2004 assembly elections had been revised in June and December 2006 in view of the corporation election.
He alleged that in spite of this, bogus names had been added. Also, names have been repeated more than two times in the lists of different wards. “MCC has spent Rs 30 lakh on the revising and printing of voters’ lists, which have anomalies. This amounts to a waste of money belonging to the public. The officers at the corporation should be held accountable,” he alleged.