The Election Fee of India (ECI) has ordered repolling on May per chance presumably well per chance 2 in 15 polling stations across two Meeting constituencies in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, following reviews of Digital Voting Machine (EVM) tampering correct via the 2d a part of polling held on Thursday.
“Repolls had been ordered in 11 polling stations in the Magrahat Paschim Meeting seat and four polling stations in the Diamond Harbour Meeting constituency. We’re peaceable expecting reviews in the case of the complaints from the Falta Meeting seat,” acknowledged a senior legit of the pollpanel in Kolkata.
Repolling will almost definitely be held on May per chance presumably well per chance 2 from 7 am to 6 pm.
The ECI had got as a minimum 77 complaints linked to EVM tampering correct via the 2d a part of elections in West Bengal.
“While 32 got right here from Falta, 13 had been got from Magrahat, 29 had been got from Diamond Harbour, and three had been got from Lope Lope,” an legit acknowledged.
In all, 142 Meeting seats spread across eight districts went to polls in the 2d part on Wednesday. Elections had been held in 152 seats in the fundamental part on April 23. No orders for repolling had been issued in the fundamental part.
EC officers acknowledged that in some cases, the buttons of a political celebration on EVMs had been discovered to be lined with adhesive tape or blackened with ink, combating voters from casting their votes. In others, attar changed into utilized to the buttons so that somebody pressing them would possibly perchance presumably presumably per chance be identified by rival events.
The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) has demanded a repoll, alleging that the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) changed into in the inspire of the tampering.
“In diverse polling cubicles, the chance to vote for the BJP has been blocked the utilization of a tape, effectively combating voters from exercising their different. Right here is the so-called ‘Diamond Harbour Model,’ the an identical template that helped Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee stable his Lok Sabha seat. We seek info from a directly repoll in all affected cubicles in Falta where such incidents dangle happened. Gross sales blueprint 189 is additionally compromised in a an identical manner in conjunction with diverse others,” Amit Malviya, head of the BJP’s IT cell, wrote on X on April 29.
In his put up, Malviya uploaded three movies in which the EVM of Fragment 170 (Harindanga High College) changed into purportedly viewed to had been compromised. HT would possibly perchance presumably presumably per chance not independently compare the authenticity of the flicks.
TMC chief Kunal Ghosh hit inspire, announcing, “The BJP knows totally that it would possibly perchance presumably presumably per chance lose the elections in these constituencies. Attributable to this truth, they’re traumatic repolls. They are just appropriate harassing the oldsters. Voters would again must face in the queue and solid their vote. BJP would lose anyway.”
