No Names on the Voter List

If you don’t know already … in spite of having a proper Voters ID and having No Change in my Address for the past twenty five years …Surprisingly! My name was not there on the Voter list this year …I Dint VOTE! I Am A Cipher!… While outside the booth , trying to find my name on the list . I noticed a few who similar problems …

In addition to a poor turnout, probably many who stepped out to exercise their franchise, returned home unhappy from the polling stations. Like Me, he disappointment faced by several hundred voters who couldn’t find their names on the voter list.

“I have been voting for two decades now and both my wife and I have our ID cards intact. Four years ago I shifted my residence from Chembur Camp to Mahul and this year we applied for a change in address. However, our names are nowhere to be found. We have been running from one booth to the other as per directions given to us by the ‘help desk’ stationed in every booth. Its surprising that we could not vote despite having voted in the past,” said a disillusioned businessman, Dayal Wadhvani. Both he and his wife Leena went for a final try at the Guru Nanak High School in Chembur Camp where surprisingly Leena found her name listed but her husband’s name could not be found.