The Hindu — complaint on deletion of votes from the list in saidapet constituency , zonal office 13, adyar in ward 146 of kotturpuram area

Our family votes of 4 members including myself have been deleted from the voters list and we could not vote today inspite of running around since the past 2 weeks to the Election Office bearers including meeting the top officials like the District Election Officer in Rippon Buildings, The Electoral Registration Officer in Zone 13 at Adyar, The Deputy Tahsildar at Adyar etc.Representations were given in writing and complaints were registered on 1950 Helpline and the National Grievances Services of the ECI.ALL TO NO AVAIL.Nobody was co operative and no proper proper answers were given for the reason of deletion of names.We live on Ranjith Road, Kotturpuram, Chennai 85 in OUR OWN HOUSE since the past 20 years and till date our names with photo ID were appearing in the rolls.This year has been different for reasons unknown.I found out that the all our names were deleted excepting my son who had got his voter card last year when I went to the Zonal office to check last month.The answers given were evasive and immediately I submitted Form 6 applications for all o[censored]s with photos and verification was also completed by the Booth Local Officer of our area.I was assured that our names will be added, but were not done.I demanded that we vote today, were refused with the statement that since our names were not appearing in the list, we cannot vote.WHO DELETED ARE NAMES IS WHAT MY QUESTION IS ? And for what reason ? Very baffling, sometimes I wonder if the names were wantedly deleted since we were from the minority community ????