What unfolded during the Nagpur civic elections was not merely logistical confusion but a systemic collapse of election management. Missing names, shifted prabhags and stalled EVMs combined to deny thousands of voters their right to vote
.Polling was repeatedly disrupted as EVM machines malfunctioned at several centres from early morning, forcing voting to halt for extended periods. Several booths stood empty, reflecting voter frustration rather than lack of interest
.In Bhandewadi, residents alleged that around 900 voters from Prabhag 26 had their votes shifted at the last moment to Prabhag 25 in Pardi. As a result, many voters chose not to vote at all
.In another glaring example, West Nagpur resident Sneha Dekate discovered that her name had been shifted from Prabhag 10 to Prabhag 14. While her polling centre was earlier at Lokpriya Vidyalaya in Adivasi Nagar, it was now moved to Gittikhadan Primary School, even as names of other family members remained unchanged. Around 800 voters in the area reportedly faced similar prabhag changes
.In Prabhag 24, voter Sunilkumar Chaurasia stood in a queue at the polling centre mentioned on his voting slip, only to be told later that his vote was registered in a different room. He then stood in another long queue, wasting nearly two hours
.Perhaps the most striking case came from East Nagpur’s Prabhag 4, where Ghanashyam Dashrath Shahu, after being sent from Nirmal School to Nagpure School and then to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose High School, finally tore his voting slip in anger and left without voting
The message from voters was clear: the failure was not theirs—it was the system’s.
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