Aizawl, Jan 26 : Mizoram Chief
Secretary Van Hela Pachuau today called upon officials involved in
preparations of voter lists to work without fear or favour to ensure
that no foreigners were enrolled in the electoral rolls. Addressing a function on the occasion of the second National Voters Day, Pachuau said while all the citizens, attaining the age of 18, should be enrolled so that they have the right to vote, utmost care should be taken so that no foreigners were enlisted in the voter lists.
"If elections, the most important exercise of the people in the democratic government, are free and fair, democracy is strengthened while abuse of the elections and the voters' lists can endanger the very foundation of democracy," he said.
All the voters in Mizoram have recently possessed electoral photo identity card (EPIC) and the state became the seventh state to achieve it.
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