India, Jan. 5 -- Leader of Opposition in the Assam assembly, Debabrata Saikia wrote to the Election Commission (EC) on Monday, citing discrepancies in the draft electoral roll released in December and demanding that the poll panel make the corrections before the final voter list for the state elections is notified.

In his letter to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Saikia said media reports and ground-level feedback indicated "unauthorised inclusion of non-Assamese speaking voters and other procedural lapses that threaten the integrity of the electoral process".

"Specific instances have come to light where "unknown" persons have been added as voters in households without the knowledge of residents," Saikia said in a letter to c...