Delhi Assembly Elections: AAP Writes to Election Commission Over 'Redistribution' Of Voters

Ahead of the elections to the Delhi Assembly scheduled for early next year, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party has written to the Election Commission (EC) over the poll-panel plans to 'redistribute' voters.

This 'redistribution' means ensuring that booths with more than 1,500 voters are adjusted by reallocating them to booths with fewer than 1,500 voters.

But the Aam Aadmi Party wants the number to be brought down further to 1,000 voters.

On Wednesday (9 October), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wrote a letter to the EC stating that with an allocated total voting time period of 11 hours ( 660 minutes), "it is entirely impossible for more than 650 people to vote in a single booth".

"Considering historically a voting of around 65 percent, we feel that any pooling booth may not have more than 1000 voters in any case," the letter reads.

AAP further proposed other recommendations in the letter:

1. The ruling party recommended avoiding any redistribution that would send voters to booths farther from their current location. It also asked to ensure that all family members are assigned to the same polling booth.

2. It suggested creating additional booths, using arrangements such as "Booth A and Booth B" so that each one has 750 plus voters in them

The National Capital will go polls in the coming months, as the Delhi Assembly elections are to take place in February next year.

The Aam Aadmi Party won nearly 90 per cent of the seats in the previous two Assembly elections in Delhi.

This time, it faces serious charges of corruption on its senior leadership and the challenge of re-instating Kejriwal as the most popular leader of New Delhi.

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