Overview
- The directive, issued Thursday, tasks the Panchkula deputy commissioner with re-verifying 8,543 flagged entries and filing a fact-finding report.
- Congress, which announced its findings Wednesday, alleged 17,086 duplicate entries across all 20 wards and submitted a list and memorandum to election authorities.
- The election commissioner said the party provided names for 8,543 voters rather than all 17,086 entries and noted the complaint came after March objection deadlines.
- Polling for mayors and councillors in Ambala, Panchkula and Sonipat is set for May 10 with counting on May 13, which leaves little time to fix any errors voters could encounter at booths.
- Congress demanded a cleaned and republished roll, a time-bound probe and FIRs, while the commission emphasized the deputy commissioner, not parties, oversees the final voter list.