Consulate General of India Jeddah. Press Release: India’s General Elections 2014 and Registration of Overseas Electors India will have a new government in place by June 1, 2014 as the world’s largest democracy will have general elections, scheduled to be held from April 7 to May 12, 2014 in nine phases. The counting of votes will take place on May 16, 2014 and results for all 543 seats in the Lok Sabha are expected to be out the same day. Parliament has approved voting rights for Non-Resident Indians in elections with the Lok Sabha adopting the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2010. The new law will allow an Indian citizen residing abroad to enroll in voter’s list and exercise his franchise even if he or she remained away from place of residence in India for more than six months owing to employment, education or otherwise. It is informed that every Indian citizen staying in Saudi Arabia, who has not acquired citizenship of a foreign country and has completed 18 years as on 1st January of the year, can make an application in form 6 A for being registered in the roll for the constituency pertaining to the locality in which his /her place of residence in India is mentioned in the passport. The application in Form 6 A can be presented to the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) concerned. Particulars and addresses of these EROs and form 6 A, along with guidelines for filling up the form, can be obtained from the official website of the Election Commission of India eci.nic.in. The application forms should be sent directly to the Electoral Registration Officers (ERO)s of the constituency within which the place of ordinary residence of the applicant (as given in the valid passport) falls. Documents to be submitted with the fully filled in application forms including one recent passport size coloured photograph (with a light background and showing the full face of the applicant), self-attested photocopies of relevant pages of passport containing the photograph and all other particulars of the applicant as also the page containing a valid visa endorsement. These photo-copies should be got duly attested by the competent official in the Indian Consulate / Embassy. Any NRI voter can register till 3 pm on the last date of filing of nomination in the constituency from which he/she would be a voter. It is further clarified that once enrolled, an Indian national living abroad will be able to cast vote in the election in the particular constituency for which one would have to be physically present on the day of election at the polling station along with the original passport. If the application is submitted in person before the ERO, the application should be accompanied by a photocopy of the relevant pages of the passport as mentioned above. The original passport should also be produced along with the application for verification by the Electoral Registration Officers ( ERO). The passport will be returned immediately after verification. This will be India’s 16th general election and as many as 814.5 million voters will be eligible to vote, 100 million more than in the previous general election in 2009. For downloading Application Form 6A and guidelines and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), all Indian nationals are requested to visit Election Commission’s website eci.nic.in/eci/eci.html or our website cgijeddah.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:43:32 +0000
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