However, this cause major inconvenience as rows of voters' names went missing. A number of parties claimed "thousands of voters" could not vote in Mumbai, Thane and other parts of the state because of an error-strewn voters' list. He added that the SEC uses the EC's voters' list for the civic elections. Incidentally, the ECI had deleted over 11 lakh voters' names from Mumbai's rolls recently in a purification drive, and is now being blamed for the goof-up. An EC official, on condition of anonymity, said citizens should have ensured their names were on the voters' list.

Source: dna February 22, 2017 01:41 UTC