Three Ds - distance, deletions and delays - appeared to have played spoilsport for electors of the Hyderabad Lok Sabha polls that recorded the lowest turnout.
Voters, and party functionaries who were given charge, opined that they were shocked to find names being deleted from the rolls. Some of them maintained that they had exercised their right to franchise only in last year’s Telangana Assembly Elections.
“Eight names from my household were deleted from the electoral rolls,” said S Q Masood, an activist. What is ironic is that Mr Masood’s area of work includes electoral issues. “My name, my wife’s, mother’s, three brothers and their respective wives’ names were deleted. Apart from these names, two cousins could not find their names on the list. This is of course shocking. I have already written to the ERO, but the elections are done .”
