Residents queue up to submit voter I-card forms

The residents of these two areas complain they have to travel a long way to submit their forms. The BJP has also set up a counter to facilitate the residents in getting their I-cards made. Arun Sood,secretary of the city unit of BJP,says the response has been tremendous.

“Around 150 to 200 people come to us everyday with various queries. The election office in Sector 17 does not even give forms which inconveniences the residents. We are guiding people on the procedures to be followed and about the requisite documents.”

Complaint filed against two BSP activists
General secretary of the Chandigarh Social Welfare Council Satish Sharma,has submitted a complaint to the Chief Electoral Officer about the alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct by activists of the Bahujan Samaj Party. Sharma,in a letter to the CEO and Chief Election Commission,New Delhi,has stated that activists of the BSP,led by ward number 13 councillor Ram Sumer Mourya and ward president Ram Sanjeevan Mishra,burnt an effigy of Congress nominee Pawan Kumar Bansal at Labour Chowk near Colony No 5. The complaint states that cognisance of this case becomes all the more important in view of the fact that the effigies of Bansal were burnt only to spread rumors about the shortage of kerosene and cause damage to his reputation. Spreading of rumours and ill-conceived information is also a violation of the code of conduct and hence should be checked appropriately,he said.