Vice Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals and former CII chief Shobana Kamineni, said she felt cheated as a citizen after she found out her name had been deleted from the voters list in the Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency, where she had voted just last December in the Telangana Assembly polls.
Kamineni met with Rajat Kumar, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Telangana, to express her grievance and the Election Commission has since apologised to her for the erroneous deletion of her name from the voter rolls.
Speaking to The Quint, Kamineni asked, “I could meet with him because I have a certain degree of access. What about those who don’t? The CEO was very kind, but it’s clear that the system isn’t working perfectly. We need to use technology better so that people do not get disenfranchised due to such errors.”