Hyderabad: Voters had many reasons to explain why they did not take part in the GHMC elections on Tuesday While the BJP blamed the TRS for the low turnout, the voters said they stayed away because they had no holiday, the fear of the Coronavirus or because their names were missing from the voter list.
Some of them turned up to vote but found that their vote had been cast by someone else.
Sreeharsha and mother Padmaa Thanneeru, voters from V.V. Nagar, Kukatpally, said: “Our names were not there even in the assembly elections voter list, and that continued for these elections too. We are not sure why they were deleted earlier, when both my mother and I have our voter ID cards with us.”
Sreeharsha added that he did try to re-register as a voter, but because it didn’t go through he decided to give up. “One reason could be that when the officials came to verify at our house, we may have been out for work, and they cancelled our names,” he said.
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