Four thousand Bangladeshis cut off from the voter list

Bhubaneswar (Visakeo): the district administration has cut off the names of four thousand suspected Bangladeshi fro the voter list residing in the Mahakalpara,Kendrapara district. The District administration also decided to halt all the benefits that are enjoyed by the suspected Bangladeshis. The District Election Commission strictly ordered the administration to eliminate the names of the infiltrators from the voter list. The supposed infiltrators have settled themselves in the Ramnagar, Kharinashi, Batighara, Jambu, Suniti, Baulakani, Rangani, Talachua, Gupti, Dangamala and Iswar panchayats. The intellectuals of the district had already demanded not to register the names of the infiltrators in the voter list. Few teachers were suspected regarding the illegal entry of the names in the voter list. It may be noted that, the High Court had ordered that people settled before 1985 shall be registered in the voter list. Following the order, former Tahasildar, BDO and Police of Mahakalpara combinedly identified 19555 infiltrators. In between this the number of infiltrations has rapidly increased. Earlier, both the names and photographs of some infiltrators have taken but in the end, due to some reason the voter card were not distributed. Task was given to the teachers to identify the actual inhabitants and the infiltrators. It may be noted that the State Government had published a notice for the 155 infiltrators to evacuate India, among them only 124 people could manage to submit the proof for the Indian citizenship.