Staff Correspondent

A large number of eligible people left out of the draft voters list rushed to the Rajshahi City Corporation office to be enrolled on Thursday, but returned disappointed as the deadline for correction expired.

The Rajshahi election office published the draft voter list in 30 wards of the city corporation area on February 18 with a total of 2, 57,700 voters and called for applications for correction or inclusion till March 5.

Since the publication of the draft list, the election office received 825 applications for new inclusions, 19 objections, 1,834 for corrections of names and 97 for changes in address. The election office on Thursday started to hear from the applicants regarding the objections which will continue till March 16, sources said.

Additional district magistrate, additional deputy commissioner and deputy election commissioner are taking the interviews, sources added. Shamsunnahar Beli of RCC ward 13 said she did not know about the last date of submitting the application for correction in the voters list.

‘I had gone to Dhaka last month for my treatment and returned to Rajshahi on Wednesday and heard the news of corrections in voter list,’ said Gul Nahar Khatun of the same ward. Tahmina Khatun of the ward 23 came to the election office for submitting an application for correction of her husband’s name in the voters list, but was refused.

She was told that the time would not be extended. A government employee of ward 21 claimed that the publicity was not done properly through loudspeakers in the wards and many voters did not know about the time given for correction or inclusions in the draft voters list.

Rajshahi deputy election commissioner Sayed Muhammed Musa told this correspondent that they had arranged adequate publicity in this regard and also published the voters list in the national and local dailies. The final voter list will be published on March 24, he informed.

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