Nawanshahr - Advocate Daljit Singh, convener of Democratic Lawyers Association Punjab and Jasbir Deep, state committee member of Jamhuri Adhikar Sabha Punjab, have said that the voter list of panchayats in district Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and the proposed ward division of Section 10 A of Punjab Panchayati Raj Act 1994. Not according to In this, many votes have been made of dead persons or persons permanently settled abroad.
Similarly, as per the instructions issued by the Punjab Government vide letter No. DPE-78/Policy/21720-41 dated 07-09-2012 and the instructions issued by the Hon'ble Punjab and Haryana High Court vide CWUP No. 8290 of 2013 while conducting warding. are not and these instructions are completely ignored. The leaders said that according to the above mentioned letter, it is necessary to have the continuity of the area of the wards. It has been observed that during warding in many villages, a house has been put in a ward and the adjacent house has been removed and put in another ward. There are specific instructions through that the Panchayat Secretary shall keep a register for keeping the records of the houses and keep correcting his record register according to the changes from time to time. But this order was not followed while preparing the voter lists. Through the decision of the writ, there are also instructions that a colored map of the proposed warding of the village is to be placed in the village along with the warding list so that the voters can register their objections. But neither such voter list nor such map has been installed in the villages which is a gross violation of the orders of the honorable High Court. Many votes are created by assigning house numbers instead. According to the Times of India news of 1 September 2023, the time to object is 21 days while this time is given as 7 days.
The District Electoral Officer has asked for objections and claims till December 29. For this too, voter lists and colored maps have not been placed in public places. The leaders have demanded from the District Electoral Officer that the process of Panchayat elections should be conducted as per the rules of the Punjab Government and as per the instructions of the Hon'ble High Court.