RAIPUR: Sparking a controversy, thousands of infuriated voters in Raipur (South) constituency and other three constituencies could not exercise their franchise, as their names were found missing from the electoral roll. People were seen returning without casting their vote, even though they were carrying their voters' identification slip delivered at their residence, resulting in heated arguments with poll parties as well.Enraged over the issue, minister for tourism and education, Brijmohan Agrawal and his supporters alleged that more than 7,000 voters in 239 polling booths, falling in Raipur (south) constituency couldn't find their names in the voters' list. "A mark of 'deleted' was stamped on their names. Many of them had neither received their voters' slip nor found their names enlisted," a BJP supporter said. Many such voters confirmed the allegation.Brijmohan, who is contesting from this region, without mentioning any name alleged, "The chief electoral officer and general observers have 'managed' and connived with other prominent party workers and deleted names of my voters from the list."Talking to TOI Brijmohan said, "I have been receiving calls from people of my constituency and many others about their names not being mentioned in the voters' list, which is not fair. On cross-checking, I found that the new voters' list released on November 13 comprised all those names which are now missing. I demand the electoral authority to conduct polling for those whose names were deleted from the list and who couldn't cast their votes because of officials' mistakes in rightly enlisting voters' names."He said booth numbers 146 and 531 alone had hundreds of voters' names missing which had upset the voters. "I will demand to investigate the matter and if needed will approach high court and Supreme Court . 'Mere paas saboot hai aur mai chunao aayog aur baki shamil logo ko benaquab karunga. ( I have all evidence and I will expose the election officials and all others related to the matter.)"The minister said that he wasn't bothered about the results as he was confident of his win, "But we expect free and fair elections which isn't the case here," he said. Brijmohan also alleged that the voters whose names have been deleted from the list, majorly belong to communities including Agrawals, Jains and Sindhis who are tagged as BJP supporters.Not just the south constituency but many booths located at Raipur (rural and north) have also made similar complaints. Many such voters contacted TOI complaining when they tried to find a solution through the helpline number 1950, the number went constantly busy for hours and they could not get in touch with the representatives. When this TOI correspondent tried calling on the helpline number to find out why many names were deleted from the voters' list, the representative answered once after several attempts saying, "The server is currently down so please call in a while," but the call was never answered after that despite several attempts.When contacted, sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) for Raipur (rural) seat, B C Sahu said, "Though there were many names which were deleted or not updated, new lists were released after 'reversal' on Monday and at least 50 teams were delegated the work of distributing voters' slip to their residences. The process continued late on Monday."