Monday, January 9 2006 17:47 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Krishnagar (WB): Representatives of major political parties today (Jan separately called on Election Commission observer K J Rao in Nadia district and aired their grievances regarding discrepancies in the voters' list.

During his meeting with Rao, of Bihar election fame, Trinamool Congress district president Naresh Chaki alleged that 10 per cent voters in all booths were fake.

Chaki submitted 147 pages of documents containing 4032 'concrete' evidence of existence of ghost voters, Bangladeshi nationals and dead persons in the voters list In Nadia district.

Congress district secretary Ajay Dey claimed that while growth of population in Nadia district was 106 per cent, the voter list had grown by 130 per cent.

Dey urged Rao, who came here to check voters' list for the coming elections for West Bengal assembly, to cancel the the voter list and prepare a fresh one after a door to door survey. He provided documents in support of his claim.

He also urged Rao to tranfer a section of policemen with alleged political leanings.

Alokesh Das, Communist Party of India (CPI)Marxist (M) MP of Nabadwip, told Rao that the party would welcome EC measures to rectify the voters list as they had been complaining about the list for long.

He claimed that the party's rivals had incorporated fake names in the voters list and then blamed Left parties.

Asked to name the rivals, he told reporters that the police were looking for a Trinamool and a Congress worker in connection with a fake voter ID card racket in Nabadwip and Shantipur areas respectively.

BJP state committee member Samik Bhattacharjee asked Rao to delete names of Bangladeshi nationals from the voters list.