They said the field-level officials, during their voter list correction effort, were not including the names of new voters who had failed to enrol themselves earlier.

The enumerators, however, claimed they did not get two necessary forms (form no-2 and 3) from the DEC office which would have enabled them to enrol new voters.

Meanwhile, the enumerators continued their voter list correction work carrying only the voter list of year 2000.

The alliance leaders led by former BNP general secretary of Chittagong city unit Dastagir Chowdhury submitted the memorandum to three district election officers around noon yesterday.

Dastagir and other leaders alleged that a number of pro-Awami League activists in different city areas were mounting pressure on officials, on voter list correction duty, to include names of voters who were not of the areas concerned. They urged the DEC officials to do their job defying pressure from any quarters.

Assistant registration officers (ARO's) in many areas have not yet given the enumerators copies of the updated voter list and the enumerators, having only the year 2000 voter list, are busy deleting names of voters who died or moved from the areas. The year 2000 voter list was updated in August this year.

M Kamrul Islam, an enumerator of Asker Dighir Par area of Jamal Khan ward, said, "Many people are interested to include their names in the list but we cannot do that as we were not given the two forms required. We are still working with the list of year 2000 and have not received the updated list."

Amir Ul Islam, district election officer (Chittagong-4), said they ordered all the AROs to send the copies of the updated list to the field-level officers. Blaming shortage of manpower, he said a number of enumerators might not get the copies in time.

Meanwhile, Dilshad Begum, deputy director of local government (deputy commissioner's office), was given the additional duty of acting district election officer of Chittagong-2, which was vacant for several months.