Bhopal, May 12: Alleging widespread irregularities in electoral rolls in Madhya Pradesh, main opposition Congress today urged Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) JS Mathur to constitute a committee to probe into the matter and to take stern action against the guilty officers.

A delegation led by MPCC President Suresh Pachouri handed over a memorandum to the CEO stating that the electoral rolls, which were made in view of next Assembly election, had enormous faults. Flaunting the data regarding the deleted names of thousands of voters from the rolls in Hoshangabad, Narsinghpur, Ujjain and Nagda, Pachouri said without any basis government officials had deleted many names.

Pachouri requested the CEO to hold special camps at every polling booth to correct the rolls and to issue the voter identity cards besides addition of deleted names. He also demanded two months time for this endeavour. ''The credibility of voter identity cards have been vanished due to large scale errors in name, age and address,'' he said.

According to a party press statement, the State government with the help of some government servants have purportedly not only deleted some of the slum areas from the voters list, but also included ineligible name of voters in it.

Referring to the recently held Betul by election, they alleged that name of about 1.25 lakh voters were deleted from the voters list, who in fact had voter ID cards with them.

The Congress has demanded the Election Commission to increase it's time period for another two-months to overcome such factual errors.

The delegation comprised of Leader of the Opposition Jamuna Devi, PCC election campaign committee chief Ajay Singh, vice-president Rameshwar Neekhra, general secretary Rajiv Singh, treasurer NP Prajapati, chief spokesperson Manak Agrawal, spokesperson JP Dhanopiya, Arvind Malviya, Subhash Shukla, Sunil Sharma, Vinit Godha, Gorki Bairagi, Bharat Rai, Kailash Sharma and several other Congress leaders and office-bearers.