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NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj Party person Prashant Kishor is simultaneously registered arsenic a elector successful Bihar and West Bengal, said an predetermination authoritative connected Tuesday, quoted by PTI.Kishor, who leads the Jan Suraaj Party, is participating successful the Bihar assembly elections.Official documents, cited by PTI, reportedly amusement Kishor is listed arsenic a elector astatine 121, Kalighat Road successful West Bengal, which serves arsenic the Trinamool Congress office successful Kolkata's Bhabanipur constituency, represented by main curate and TMC person Mamata Banerjee."His polling presumption is listed arsenic St Helen School connected B Ranishankari Lane," the authoritative added.Kishor antecedently served arsenic a governmental advisor for the TMC during West Bengal's 2021 assembly elections.The authoritative revealed that successful Bihar, Kishor is registered successful the Kargahar assembly conception wrong Sasaram parliamentary constituency, Rohtas district, with his designated polling presumption astatine Madhya Vidyalaya, Konar. The authoritative further referenced Section 17 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, which prohibits elector registration successful aggregate constituencies. "Section 18, meanwhile, prohibits aggregate entries wrong the aforesaid constituency.
Electors are required to record Form 8 to transportation their enrolment erstwhile they alteration residence," helium pointed out.The Election Commission (EC) has acknowledged duplicate elector entries arsenic a persistent problem, citing this arsenic a crushed for implementing the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls nationwide.The SIR initiative, which began successful Bihar, concluded with updated rolls published connected September 30, eliminating astir 68.66 lakh entries, including astir 7 lakh instances of aggregate elector registrations.
