Question of ballot paper out of your scope: Law ministry

TO PARL PANEL ON SIMULTANEOUS POLLS

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI: The question of reverting to ballot papers does not fall under the ambit of the mandate of a joint committee of Parliament examining the two Bills on simultaneous polls, the Union law ministry is learnt to have said.

Going back to the ballot paper system was a "suggestion" made by some of the members of the joint committee, and the law ministry was to respond to it in writing.

While the ministry's Legislative Department gave elaborate responses to a variety of questions posed to it by the committee, it did not give a direct reply on the suggestion on the ballot paper system.