STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Assam, Nitin Khade has urged the citizens to check their details in the draft photo-electoral roll; and submit their photographs at the earliest if their names are lacking their respective photographs. This thrust is being given as based on the final photo-electoral roll, the forthcoming Assembly elections will be conducted this year.
Meanwhile, State Election Department sources informed that 1.46 lakh electorates did not have photos against their names in the electoral roll in the first part of November 2020. However, following drives undertaken among the public by the District
Election Officers (DEOs), the Booth Level Officers (BLOs), and the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), as many as 1,30,000 photos have been collected so far. As many as 16,000 voters have not submitted their photos till date.