Lucknow, Apr 13: The Bharatiya Janata Party today complimented the &13;Election Commission (EC) for peaceful conduct of the Uttar Pradesh assembly &13;polls but demanded corrective measures to improve the voting percentage.
''BJP is concerned over the low turnout of the voters in the first phase on &13;April 7 and second phase today owing to some irregularities the EC must looked &13;into ,''BJP vice president and senior party leader Yashwant Sinha told &13;reporters here.
The faulty voters' lists, rather discouraging attitude of the security forces &13;deployed at the polling booths and several lacunae in voters identification had &13;been some of reason behind the low turnout at the hustings, he said.
In reply to a question, the senior BJP leader said it was immaterial as which &13;party would suffer the most due to the low percentage of voting but the &13;franchise was a constitutional right every citizen should be ensured to &13;excercise.
''Since. five more phases are still to go, I appeal to the EC to take &13;corrective measures to improve the voters, turnout otherwise whole excercise of &13;fair and free polls would come to a nought,'' Mr Sinha said.
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''BJP is concerned over the low turnout of the voters in the first phase on &13;April 7 and second phase today owing to some irregularities the EC must looked &13;into ,''BJP vice president and senior party leader Yashwant Sinha told &13;reporters here.
The faulty voters' lists, rather discouraging attitude of the security forces &13;deployed at the polling booths and several lacunae in voters identification had &13;been some of reason behind the low turnout at the hustings, he said.
In reply to a question, the senior BJP leader said it was immaterial as which &13;party would suffer the most due to the low percentage of voting but the &13;franchise was a constitutional right every citizen should be ensured to &13;excercise.
''Since. five more phases are still to go, I appeal to the EC to take &13;corrective measures to improve the voters, turnout otherwise whole excercise of &13;fair and free polls would come to a nought,'' Mr Sinha said.
UNI
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