Goa poll: BJP demands persons of unknown origin to vacate

Party leaders fear that bogus voters are being hoarded by political rivals

PTI | March 1, 2012



With two more days to go for Goa assembly polls, the BJP has requested the Election Commission to ask persons with unknown origin and those not linked to their constituency, to vacate the area in order to prevent bogus voting in the state.

Party leaders fear that bogus voters are being hoarded in various constituencies by political rivals, and they would be used on March 3.

"All the persons of unknown origin who are not in any way connected or linked to the constituency should be asked to vacate the areas," BJP's Goa spokesman Dr Wilfred Mesquita said in a letter with the EC.

BJP has also claimed that the flying squads in the constituencies like Sanguem, Valpoi, Poriem and Cuncolim are non effective because of the connivance of local police with the ministers, contesting elections.

Mesquita has demanded that CRPF should be deployed for ministers with Z category to curb such things.

"Even the current batch of policemen with flying squads should be replaced by a new one," he said.

Considering the volatile situation in a few constituencies, the party has demanded that seats including St Andre, Taleigao, Shiroda, Sanguem, Valpoi and Cuncolim should be declared sensitive.

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