'What use are these voter cards if we can't vote?'

While some electorate have been disenchanted to not in finding their names in voter’s list at cubicles from the place they've all the time voted, others are so offended that they've decided to never vote.

For some, it didn’t cross as anticipated. Hoping to vote, many didn’t in finding their names in the list, even though they had voted from the regular polling cubicles in 2014.

Doshi Harkuvar Mohanlal, 104, came to the polling station at Jamnabai Nursee School along with her 87-year-old daughter Kumud Sanghavi and her grandson. She waited in her wheelchair for just about 45 minutes but didn’t in finding her name in the voting list. “I used to be in Africa for 8 years and for every other 8 years in the United States. I had voted in 2014 and sought after to vote this yr as neatly,” stated Harkuvar whose passport mentions 1914 as her yr of beginning. She clung to her slip supplied via a local polling agent, but sales space officials stated that slips are sometimes given in line with previous lists and the circle of relatives will have to have checked her name on-line. Harkuvar’s slip stated she comes below the Andheri West meeting phase.

Shirish Mohod, deputy chief electoral officer, Maharashtra, advised Mumbai Mirror, “The electoral roll preparation is a process carried out annually. Updates, deletion, switch and revision are performed annually. Since January 2018, we now have been publishing ads on all platforms and have run consciousness programmes to teach voters. We had given options to voters to check and update their names.”

Chaitali Dave, a Versova resident, has been voting on the same station for several years and felt there was no wish to test her name on-line. However, she was in for a rude shock when she found her name lacking. She hung around on the sales space from 1 pm to six pm. “My residential deal with is identical. We have not long past for redevelopment. How can my name cross lacking?” she insisted. At the same time, despite the fact that, many found names of their deceased members of the family nonetheless at the voter’s list.

National Award-winner costume clothier Niharika Khan was one of those running around to search out her name in the list but did not get any update. “I've been voting right here for a few years. Last time I couldn’t vote but this time my nation is not permitting me to vote. What can I do?” she asked angrily. When asked whether or not she had checked her name at the list she stated, she didn't.

Niharika Khan, Iqbal Afjal Sheikh and 104-year-old Doshi Harkuvar have been some of those that didn’t in finding their names in voter’s list

Thirteen families previously dwelling in Chheda Nagar found their names lacking from the voters’ list. After the 2006 Mumbai floods, their construction Twin Garden needed to be demolished because it was found structurally unsafe. The BMC never gave the citizens permission to rebuild they usually started dwelling in different places on hire. While their names have been nonetheless at the voters’ list in 2014, this yr they couldn’t in finding their names on-line. “The names of everyone from our construction have been lacking,” stated Dr Sandeep Shetty. The 43-year-old dentist additionally spent a few hours the day prior to this scanning during the electoral lists in numerous polling stations in the neighbourhood, whilst his oldsters, elderly 72 and 67, waited out in the harsh sun.

Another resident from the same construction, Sharavananrajiah Nadar, 42, additionally didn’t in finding his name at the list and went from one polling sales space to every other for greater than three hours in search of their names. “We had voted in 2014, but this time our names weren’t there; not even my father’s, who had won the voting slip via submit,” he stated.

Kanan Nabar took a time without work from work to come back to Mumbai to vote but didn’t in finding her name in the list. “My circle of relatives’s voting slips have been delivered a few days prior to the polls but mine didn’t arrive. I had a slip from last time and noticed no explanation why to worry,” stated Nabar. But when she reached the sales space the day prior to this, her name was lacking.

Uttam Bhagwan Gaikwad – a resident of Ashtavinayak Society at Khar Golibar Maidan – has voted in every election from the polling station in Indiranagar, but this time found his name lacking. “I even voted in 2017 municipal polls. This time, I used to be just shunted from one sales space to every other to search out my name.”

In the same space, Sanjay Kamble had enrolled his daughter Jyoti’s name as a first-time voter but couldn’t in finding her at the voting list. “Her name will have to have been with the remainder of the circle of relatives but we spent the day going from one polling sales space to the opposite.”

Bharatnagar resident Iqbal Afjal Sheikh has all the time voted in Pattharnagar Municipal School but this time his and his circle of relatives’s names have been lacking from the voters’ list. “Our circle of relatives of six couldn’t vote. We have voters’ cards, Aadhar and so many others but what’s the use of these cards if we will be able to’t vote.”

From Mumbai Central’s Navjeevan Society, 48-year-old Sanjay Jain was the only one in his circle of relatives of 8 who couldn’t vote on Monday. The Election Commission officials claimed there have been three other folks with the same name, Jain’s name was deleted. “When I didn’t in finding my name in the list, I used to be asked to go to the Gilder Lane Municipal School. I spent two hours there in search of my name but they advised me it's been deleted and I can’t vote this time. I had voted in 2014 on the same polling station,” Jain stated. —With inputs from Alka Dhupkar, Makarand Gadgil, Payal Gwalani, Chaitanya Marpakwar and Linah Baliga

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“WE WILL NOT INK OUR FINGERS AGAIN”

Vasai resident and senior journalist Mrityunjay Bose and his members of the family have been in for a shock when they went to polling sales space No. 370 at Mother Mary High School in Vasai and came upon that their names weren't in the voter’s list. Two days prior to the polls, Bose and his brother Manas had visited the BJP and Congress pandals to cross-check the cubicles allocated to them.

The circle of relatives had voted most often in May 2018 when the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll was held.

Finding the whole thing so as, the circle of relatives – including their senior citizen oldsters, Subhas Chandra and Sandhya Bose – reached the polling sales space at 6.50 am the day prior to this. Instead of EC’s mandated time of 7 am, the polling sales space opened only at 7.35 am, leaving them status in a queue for just about 45 minutes. “When our flip in any case came, I used to be advised that our names weren't at the list. We have been advised we don't seem to be registered voters. I may see several others who may not vote,” stated an disillusioned Bose, who has vowed not to cast his vote again after the incident. The circle of relatives had voted most often in May 2018 when the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll was held.