Notwithstanding GHMC's claims of cent percent distribution of voter slips through booth level officers, several voters have complained that they have not received them.
Govardhan Das (80), a resident of Gunrock in Secunderabad, was sent from one polling station to the other, and returned finally unable to cast his vote.
"Many of us have not received voter slips. We did not know our polling booth, and went around from Mudfort, to Kharkhana, and then to Diamond Point. But our votes were nowhere," he said, speaking for himself & his wife.
Residents of Maheshwari Nilayam in Padmashali Colony of Musheerabad constituency too complained that nobody distributed voter slips this time.
Similar complaints were heard in all booths at Khairatabad and Amberpet constituencies too.
Lambasting the government on this, former legislator Chintala Ramachandra Reddy said political party agents had done better job than GHMC during previous elections.
This time, GHMC authorised its booth level officers to distribute the slips, and permitted the party agents only to accompany the BLOs, but not to distribute the slips. The BLOs were instructed to deliver the slips at the doorsteps of voters.
The experiment has apparently failed, going by the experience on the ground.