<p>Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) O P Rawat on Tuesday clarified that the voters whom Congress had claimed are bogus are in fact "duplicate" ones, whose names have appeared in more than one voter list.</p>.<p>In a meeting with the representatives of various political parties here, the CEC said the commission was seriously looking into complaints of irregularities in electoral rolls.</p>.<p>"The commission will ensure the deletion of all multiple voters from the rolls before the Assembly election in the state", he assured the delegates.</p>.<p>Rawat also reviewed the law-and-order situation and election preparedness with the state DGP Rishi Kumar Shukla and Chief Secretary B K Singh.</p>.<p>The Congress had moved a petition against the poll panel in the Supreme Court claiming that there were 60 lakh bogus voters whose names are yet to be deleted.</p>.<p>The court is slated to hear the petition on August 31. State Chief Electoral Officer V Kanta Rao recently said the electoral rolls have been under revision and scrutiny since January this year, and 24 lakh voters were found ineligible and their names deleted.</p>.<p>Since the two by-elections in the state in February, the Congress has been constantly mounting pressure on the Election Commission to thoroughly revise the electoral rolls.</p>.<p>In the run-up to the by-polls in Mungawali and Kolaras Assembly seats, a sizeable number of voters were found bogus in both the constituencies and their names duly deleted. The Congress had won both the by-polls.</p>
<p>Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) O P Rawat on Tuesday clarified that the voters whom Congress had claimed are bogus are in fact "duplicate" ones, whose names have appeared in more than one voter list.</p>.<p>In a meeting with the representatives of various political parties here, the CEC said the commission was seriously looking into complaints of irregularities in electoral rolls.</p>.<p>"The commission will ensure the deletion of all multiple voters from the rolls before the Assembly election in the state", he assured the delegates.</p>.<p>Rawat also reviewed the law-and-order situation and election preparedness with the state DGP Rishi Kumar Shukla and Chief Secretary B K Singh.</p>.<p>The Congress had moved a petition against the poll panel in the Supreme Court claiming that there were 60 lakh bogus voters whose names are yet to be deleted.</p>.<p>The court is slated to hear the petition on August 31. State Chief Electoral Officer V Kanta Rao recently said the electoral rolls have been under revision and scrutiny since January this year, and 24 lakh voters were found ineligible and their names deleted.</p>.<p>Since the two by-elections in the state in February, the Congress has been constantly mounting pressure on the Election Commission to thoroughly revise the electoral rolls.</p>.<p>In the run-up to the by-polls in Mungawali and Kolaras Assembly seats, a sizeable number of voters were found bogus in both the constituencies and their names duly deleted. The Congress had won both the by-polls.</p>
