Election Commission issues notice to Prashant Kishor for being enrolled as voter in 2 states

According to a report in The Indian Express, Prashant Kishor’s name appears in the electoral rolls of West Bengal and Bihar. The poll strategist-turned-politician, whose party is contesting the Bihar assembly election, is listed at 121 Kalighat Road in Kolkata, the address of the Trinamool Congress office in chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Bhabanipur constituency.

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Citing the report, the ECI said in its notice that Kishor’s name was registered in the voter list of ‘Nirmal Hriday School, Beadon Street, Kolkata’ and “also in 209–Karahgar Assembly Constituency (Part No. 767, Serial No. 621) in Bihar, with voter ID IUJ1323718.”

The poll panel reminded that under Section 17 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, a person cannot be registered as a voter in more than one constituency. Violation of this rule is punishable under Section 31 of the same Act.