EC restrictions play spoilsport to poll buzz

Poll officials at many booths were seen not asking for the photo identity cards of the voters. Even though some voters,whose names were missing from the electoral rolls,produced the cards,they were not allowed to cast their right.

At Sector 71 polling booth,Inderjit Kaur,Satnam Singh and his wife Swaranjit Kaur were shocked to find their names missing from rolls despite possessing having a photo identity card. Same was the plight of Surinder Singh and wife Karamjit Kaur,Sita Ram in Phase V,Kuldeep Singh and wife Kulwant Kaur,Jaswinder Kaur in Phase XI. 

In Kharar,all four members of family Mohinder Singh,wife Manjit Kaur,son Baldev Singh,Baldev’s wife Jaswant Kaur of Ward 13 had to return from polling booth without casting their votes as their names were missing. “We have the identity cards and cast votes in every election. This time is a surprised exception,” lamented octogenarian Mohinder Singh.

Meanwhile,except the polling agents of the Congress and the SAD-BJP combine,none of the other 12 contestants were represented inside a majority of the booths. Same was the case with booths of the parties set up outside the polling stations.

Unlike previous elections,no slips were distributed to voters by political parties in a majority of the areas this time causing much inconvenience to the voters who found it difficult to trace their vote number and polling booth.