Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S Chocklingam denied charges made by opposition parties that voters are added and removed at specific times, as someone outside the Election Commission is handling this.

The CEO in an eight-page release said, “The process of correcting and rectifying errors in the voter lists of the assembly constituencies is ongoing. For this, the Election Commission of India has made an extremely secure portal available. Apart from the voter registration officer, no one else can make changes to the voter list. No representative of any political party is connected with the office of the Chief Electoral Officer and the Election Commission of India. Therefore, the information disseminated in this regard is completely baseless and factless.”

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