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The ECI said that the political parties should have raised the issue of Electoral Roll error during the Claims and Objections period of past elections.
The Election Commission of India. (PTI File)
As the Opposition targets the Election Commission of India over Bihar’s special intensive revision and “vote theft”, the poll body on Saturday said that the political parties should have raised the matter of errors in electoral rolls during the claims and objections period of elections held in the past.
It further said that the ECI shares electoral rolls with parties before any elections so that any errors, if genuine”, could be corrected before those polls.
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In a statement, the Election Commission said, “Recently, some Political Parties and individuals are raising issues about errors in the Electoral Rolls, including those prepared in the past. The appropriate time to raise any issue with the Electoral Rolls would have been during the Claims and Objections period of that phase, which is precisely the objective behind sharing the Electoral Rolls with all Political Parties and the Candidates.”
“Had these issues been raised at the right time through the right channels, it would have enabled the concerned SDM EROs to correct the mistakes, if genuine, before those elections,” the statement added.
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