CEO tells parties to appoint Block agents
Chandigarh, May 16 -- With the election commission initiating the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Punjab from June 15 to remove discrepancies from electoral rolls, chief electoral officer (CEO) Anindita Mitra on Friday held a meeting with representatives of political parties, and urged them to appoint booth level agents (BLAs) at the earliest. The CEO stressed that timely deployment of BLAs will facilitate their training alongside Booth Level Officers (BLOs) from June 15 to June 24, following which they will conduct door-to-door visits from June 25 to July 24 for filling voter forms.
During the meeting, Congress leaders raised the issue of voters from other states, such as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, also registered in Punjab's electoral rolls. They also demanded that enumeration forms be made available in Punjabi, along with English and Hindi.
Prominent among those present were Ferry Sofat from the AAP, Avtar Singh Karimpuri from the BSP, NK Verma from the BJP, RL Modgill and Ranjit Singh from the CPI (Marxist), Amar Singh and Captain Sandeep Sandhu from the Congress, and Daljit Singh Cheema and Arshdeep Singh Kler from the Shiromani Akali Dal....
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