MP Cong complains to EC after former MLA's name goes missing

The Madhya Pradesh Congress today lodged a complaint with the state Election Commission after the names of a former MLA from Tikamgarh and his family members were found missing from the voters list.

A party delegation met MP Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) V L Kantha Rao and submitted a memorandum demanding an inquiry into the deletion of the names of former minister Yadvendra Singh and members of his family.

Singh has, earlier, been a Congress MLA from Tikamgarh four times.

"I am surprised that names of my entire family were deleted from the electoral rolls. I think this was done as part of a conspiracy. All the names existed in the voters list in the month of June but are missing now," Singh said.

CEO Rao told reporters that the district returning officer (the district collector) had been directed to inquire into the matter and take action in case it was done deliberately.

The Congress delegation also complained to the EC that there were 11,000 double entries in the voters list of Narela Assembly seat in Bhopal.

Rao informed that this complaint too was being examined.

He said that the state EC would launch its Twitter handle, Facebook account and YouTube channel to share information about the MP Assembly polls.

The Assembly polls in the state are slated for later this year.