An organisation of Gurgaon residents claims to have spotted irregularities in the district administration’s recent electoral roll revision process and has urged the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to postpone the Assembly polls in Gurgaon, scheduled for October 13.

In a letter to CEC Navin Chawla, Mission Gurgaon Development, earlier christened Gurgaon United Residents’ Movement, said the Election Commission (EC) had directed all states undergoing summary revision of electoral rolls to put the draft rolls on their website. The letter states that “despite repeated reminders, neither the draft rolls nor the final ones have been put up on the Haryana CEO’s (chief electoral officer) website more than 10 days after the date fixed for their publication”.

The letter also claims that despite another specific EC direction, e-registration — or online registration of voters — it has not yet been enabled on the state CEO’s website.

“The website provides only STD codes of helpline numbers and EROs do not respond to calls from unknown numbers,” the residents claims in the letter. According to them, no customer care centre or facility had been set up to address the large number of complaints and queries, as instructed by the EC.

The organisation has urged the CEC to sanction a fresh door-to-door re-registration campaign. “The process may take three to six months,” the letter states, “And elections in Gurgaon may be held thereafter to ensure that the right to vote is held sacrosanct and not given a go-by once again, as is being done in Gurgaon for the past 10 to 15 years.”

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