After quitting BJP, Padma Shukla joins Congress
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Sept 24: Padma Shukla, who announced her exit from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) earlier today, has joined the Congress party. Shukla was heading the state's Social Welfare department. She held a state cabinet rank.
Shukla is willing to contest the assembly elections if the Congress considers her candidature. The assembly elections in the state is due end of the year. Speaking to ANI, Shukla said, "If the Congress party considers me eligible then I will contest elections for them from the Vijayraghavgarh constituency."
Explaining why she quit the BJP, Shukla mentioned, "Whatever I have done to date is for the workers. Sanjay Pathak, who is a state minister, creates problem for the workers. I couldn't do anything to save them. I tried my best to have a positive relationship with them, but it didn't work." Shukla was a BJP member since 1980.
In her resignation letter to BJP state president Rakesh Singh, she expressed her disappointment with the party saying, "I have been a primary member of the party since 1980 and have discharged my duties accordingly. I am upset because of the negligence and exploitation of the party workers in Vijayraghavgarh constituency post-2014 by-polls. Thus, I am resigning from the primary membership of the party."
Courtesy: www.aninews.in
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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
