Kadaba, May 12: The deletion of the names of five members of a family from the voters list came to light when they have been to polling station to cast their votes at Kadaba. As a result, they could not vote on Saturday.
As soon as the news spread, workers of a political party said that because of the mistake done by some officials, the voters were deprived of their right and they should be given opportunity to vote.
But Alankar village accountant said that “As they have directions from the higher ups to delete the names of those who were not there in their residence for the last six months, from the voters list. This time, they cannot vote. Their names would be included in the voters list and next time, they could vote”, he added.
But irked by this development, a lady from the family asked ‘As to why their names were deleted from the list? I have ration card and Aadhar card. Moreover, we have never applied for deletion of our names from the voters list. How did you remove our names? Who has signed for this? I would complaint to the tahsildar and if I don’t get justice, I would go to court”, she warned.
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Ranchi(PTI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates leading in five of the six seats where the party is contesting, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.
RJD candidates in five assembly seats were leading over sitting BJP legislators.
In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat where its nominee Satyanand Bhokta won.
In Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan was leading by 19,581 votes over his nearest rival and BJP's sitting MLA Narayan Das after the third round of counting.
RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav was ahead by 19,867 votes in Godda over BJP MLA Amit Kumar Mandal after the sixth round of counting.
In Koderma, RJD nominee Subhash Prasad Yadav, who was out on bail, was leading by a margin of 3,471 votes over BJP’s sitting legislator Neera Yadav.
Subhas Prasad Yadav, considered to be one of the close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case.
Party’s Naresh Prasad Singh was leading by 5,159 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP’s Bishrampur MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi.
RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav was also leading from Hussainabad by 8,213 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP MLA Kamlesh Kumar Singh.
Party’s candidate Rashmi Prakash, however, was trailing from Chatra by 3,776 votes.
Bhokta did not contest the elections this time, and his daughter-in-law Prakash was given a ticket.