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Goa Roll Row: 97 voters not restored despite ERO nod, Congress alleges ECINet override
Published: 24/09/26 06:43
New Delhi | India
New Delhi, Sep 24 (UNI) Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday stepped up his party's attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI), citing a report on 97 voters in Goa who remained excluded from the final electoral roll despite being found eligible by ground-level officers. Ramesh linked the episode to an Indian Express report on internal objections by Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi over centralisation of electoral-roll management. According to the fresh investigation cited by Ramesh, Goa's Chief Electoral Officer wrote to the ECI eight times between February 11 and 17 seeking a rollback facility for…