Indian Express
Chandigarh In the last decade, the city’s population has almost doubled, but number of voters has decreased by one lakh. ...
...The number kept increasing till 1999, when there were 5.8 lakh registered voters. However, a reverse trend followed. In 2004, the number of voters decreased to 5.2 lakh. Political experts attribute the decrease in the number of voters to the introduction of voter-identification cards with the resident’s photograph. The step was taken by the UT Election department to check bogus voting.
...The BJP also demanded that the electoral list be checked. “It seems that voters have been deleted in a systematic manner from the voters’ list,” said BJP candidate Satya Pal Jain.
