Shillong, Nov 28: The Khasi Students Union (KSU) on Tuesday met Meghalaya chief electoral officer (CEO), F.R. Kharkongor and demanded that enrolment of voters should be strict and doubted if the state over one lakh voters who are yet to enroll in the electoral roll.
The KSU also questioned the CEO for seeking help from political parties to bridge the gap since there are 1,08,318 persons who have not enrolled as voters.
KSU general secretary, Donald Thabah told reporters that the gap of left out voters cannot be based from the 2011 population census because the census includes not only indigenous population but those who came working here from other states of the country.
He said that citizens from other parts of the country have already enrolled their names in their respective places.
Thabah said that the enrolment should be strict because outsiders, as well as illegal immigrants might get themselves enrolled through various loopholes.
The KSU also stressed that the enrolment should focus only on the youth who have just attained 18 years of age, because there are people above 30 years of age who also came to enrol only now.
Meanwhile the KSU also sought a clarification from the CEO whether people should use Aadhaar for enrolling as voters, but Kharkongor informed that Aadhaar has not been made accepted yet in Meghalaya.
The CEO however assured the KSU that only genuine voters would be enrolled, and the help from political parties was sought only for creating awareness among the people in rural areas that people who have not enrolled should get themselves enrolled now.
Kharkongor also told the KSU that a software has but put in place that can tap even those who have already enrolled in other places of the country but tried to have dual enrolment.
