Two days after the row over missing voters in the voter list in Pune broke out, the BJP Saturday expressed apprehensions about the possibility of similar chaos during the April 24 Lok Sabha polls for the six seats in Mumbai.

Veteran BJP leader Ram Naik, who is also the national coordinator of the party’s good governance cell, alleged discrepancies in Mumbai’s voter list. “We still have five days to go for polling. We have requested election officials to weed out these to avoid a repeat of scenes witnessed in Pune,” Naik said.

Earlier in the day, Naik led a BJP delegation to Mumbai suburban district election officer Shekhar Channe at the latter’s office carrying “documentary evidence” of duplicate names in the voter list. “EC officials have assured us that corrective measures would be taken,” Naik said, while addressing a press conference later.

He said he spotted the discrepancies while voter slips were being distributed in his own housing society in Goregaon (East). “While there were 20 eligible voters in our society, the voter list shows 30 voters. On further scrutiny, I realised that names of the at least 10 non-existent voters were also a part of the voter rolls for a slum colony situated in Goregaon (West).

The fear is that the trend of duplicate voters in rolls is widespread and could result in bogus voting,” he added. Naik said the ruling Congress-NCP combine could have played a role in these discrepancies. BJP has also blamed the ruling combine for the missing voters row in Pune.

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