SIR: Dead woman on voters list but husband, son off in Bengal

KOLKATA: Seventy-seven-year-old Mina Jalal, who was nether adjudication for SIR, ne'er came to cognize successful her beingness that she qualified to beryllium a voter. The elector of the Chowringhee assembly constituency passed distant connected March 27, days earlier being named by the EC successful the last database of April 9.

Though she qualified, her husband, Jalaluddin Ahmed Siddique, did not walk the adjudication process, nor did her lad Imran Zaki. Both person moved the tribunal. Three of her different sons and a girl person qualified arsenic "voters" pursuing the submission of enumeration forms. "She was sick and nether intelligence accent arsenic she knew that she could not ballot successful the assembly poll, but erstwhile her sanction was cleared by the EC, she was nary much - it is an irony of fate.

She had voted successful each the polls successful the past, and this clip she was a spot distressed... As she was sick, the BLO came and collected each the documents," said societal entrepreneur and educationist, Imran Zaki. "We had each our names successful the 2002 SIR, and still, aft sharing each information and documents, we are perpetually being harassed. They are not giving immoderate crushed wherefore our names were deleted. There should beryllium transparency connected the portion of the EC.

They are playing hide-and-seek with a malafide intent." "Our household has been surviving connected Weston Street successful Bowbazar for implicit 7 decades, wherever our gramps Nazir Ahmed stayed, who was with the British police, and inactive we are staying successful the aforesaid building," Zaki added. He said his father, an 81-year-old businessman and societal worker, is "very worried" arsenic helium fears that helium cannot formed his ballot this time. "We beryllium to this state and are associated with the metropolis from the British era. How tin they delete our names? This is mockery of the antiauthoritarian system. We anticipation we volition beryllium enrolled soon," helium added.