Poll notification is likely to be out soon
A CPM functionary said nearly 100 booths need changes. We have found about 100, out of 4,722 booths, that need changes,” said Subrata Dutta , CPM’s Kolkata district secretariat member. Poll officials said the 4,722 booths were distributed across 1,835 polling stations in the KMC area.
“Such undemocratic means clearly depict that there was an intention behind such exercise for which we strongly object,” the letter said. Both CPM and Congress have raised objections and demanded a review. “It has been found that during the delimitation process, we were called by the concerned hearing officers of KMC as per our objections, wherein wrong maps were, strangely, used for the hearing process. We want to know why such wrong maps were used to conduct such important hearings in relation to the delimitation exercise which result in fabrication,” Chatterjee wrote in a letter to Bengal’s CEO, state election commissioner (SEC) and KMC commissioner. “The booth distribution in the list handed over to us last week does not always match with the maps. The booth distribution is filled with errors. A voter from Tollygunge Phanri must go to Jodhpur Park to cast his vote.
Congress functionary Ashutosh Chatterjee, who attended a hearing on Wednesday in respect of draft rolls for KMC polls published last week, said the map that was being shown to them now was different from the map shown when hearings for revision of ward boundaries were conducted in KMC.