TNPSC Thervupettagam

Special polling stations to migrants

April 18 , 2024 222 days 268 0
  • The Election Commission of India (ECI) has eased the paperwork for people who shifted from Kashmir to Jammu and Udhampur in the nineties to cast their votes.
  • Migrant voters are essentially from the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community.
  • They were previously required to fill the form to request the transfer of their vote from Kashmir to a polling station in Jammu, Udhampur or Delhi.
  • The ECI also decided that self-attested certificates appended with Form-M will be acceptable from migrants living outside Jammu and Udhampur.
  • It eliminated the need for attestation by a gazetted officer.
  • The poll body has designated 22 special polling stations (21 in Jammu and 1 in Udhampur) for migrant voters in the two regions.

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