Begusarai Congress social gathering unit in Bihar submits listing of 37-deceased electors within the draft listing at one sales space

The Begusarai unit of the Opposition Congress social gathering in Bihar has submitted an inventory of as many as 37 deceased electors at one sales space (No. 274) below Teghra Assembly constituency (No. 143) to the District Election Officer-cum-District Magistrate with calls for which included, “all deletions ought to be re-verified and corrections made by the BLOs [Booth Level Officers] themselves and deadline for corrections ought to be prolonged by 30-days”.

“While engaged on the draft listing of electors launched within the district, we discovered names of as many as 37 deceased electors at one polling sales space [no: 274] in Teghra Assembly constituency of Begusarai district. There are a number of different anomalies like deletion of names of a number of real electors from the listing,” social and political activist Akshay Kumar, who together with fellow activist Prasenjit Ghosh had ready the listing, advised The Hindu over the telephone. He mentioned they “labored on the draft listing of the Teghra Assembly constituency for 3 days to seek out the obvious anomalies”. “This submitted listing can work as a mannequin for evaluate of different Assembly constituencies draft listing of electors to underline the grave anomalies,” added Akshay Kumar.

The Begusarai district unit of the Congress social gathering submitted the listing to the District Election Officer-cum-District Magistrate “for rectification within the draft listing” on August 11, 2025. “Like this listing, anomalies in electors launched draft listing of electors may very well be seen in different constituencies too. It is ridiculous to see as many as 37 useless electors identify at one single sales space in Teghra Assembly constituency…one can properly think about the state of affairs of all cubicles in the entire constituency,” puzzled Abhay Kumar Singh ‘Sarjan’ who’s Begusarai district president of the Congress social gathering. “Yes we submitted the listing to the District Election Officer yesterday…and hope that he would take speedy motion on this for rectification of the anomalies within the listing at each sales space within the district”, admitted the chief.

The District Magistrate-cum-District Election Officer of Begusarai, Tushar Singla, couldn’t be contacted regardless of calls and messages despatched to him for his remark. However, the Booth Level Officer (BLO) Indu Kumari of the sales space positioned at Kanya Utkramit Madhya Vidyalay at Khemkaranpur (Purbi bhag-eastern facet) mentioned, “All anomalies can be rectified and it’s for rectification work one-month time has been given… I too will see to it.”

But, the MLA from Teghra Assembly constituency Ram Ratan Singh of Communist Party of India (CPI) mentioned, “Such anomalies within the draft listing of electors are at each sales space in each Assembly constituency. Several electors are proven both residing on the similar handle or a number of alive voters identify have been deleted and several other useless are enlisted…what to do?”

Mr. Singh mentioned his social gathering too has submitted an inventory of anomalies within the printed draft listing of electors to the District Election Officer-cum-District Magistrate, however “none takes any care of our submission and calls for”, he reiterated his woes.

Social activist of Teghra constituency Shailendra Kumar added, “Even the BLO don’t choose up our telephone to talk to…the BLO of sales space No:274 is Indu Kumar and she or he is a anganwadi employee [frontline workers in India’s Integrated Child Development Services-ICDS- programme working for development services to women and children in rural communities as link between government and the community] however she additionally doesn’t choose up our telephone.”

“We need to ask her how names of those useless electors have been retained within the draft electoral roll?” he rued, whereas including, “In truth the quantity deceased individuals proven within the launched draft listing of electors goes over hundred however we are able to cross-check solely of 37.”

Few names of deceased electors like Gayatri Devi (EPIC No. YRD0420232), Ramsubhag Singh (EPIC No.: YRD0420299), Sagar Devi (EPIC No: YRD0420307), Ram Naresh Singh (EPIC No: YRD0420372), Urmila Devi (EPIC No: YRD0420380) and others have been given within the listing of Begusarai unit of the Congress social gathering which was submitted to the District Election Officer-cum-District Magistrate on Monday (August 11, 2025).

The social gathering’s submission additionally included calls for to “publish a recent Assembly clever and half / sales space clever listing of deletions alongside the draft electoral roll; the listing of deletions should be made out there on-line in a searchable format [through EPIC, Elector Name etc.] much like the draft electoral roll; The BLOs of all elements / cubicles ought to be directed to challenge discover to each deleted electors explaining the reason for deletion as all deletions ought to be re-verified and corrections made by the BLO themselves; Errors on the a part of BLOs and different ECI officers ought to be corrected by means of type 8 and never by forcing real electors to refill type 6 and apply as new elector and, the deadline for corrections within the draft electoral roll ought to be prolonged by 30 days to September 30’2025”.

“Lets hope that every one the corrections be made and calls for be regarded upon by the competent EC authorities in order that real electors get an opportunity to train their franchise,” mentioned the Begusarai district Congress president Abhay Kumar Singh ‘Sarjan’.