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TMC alleged EVM tampering | Screen drawback from video shared by @AITCofficial
NEW DELHI: TMC launched a crisp allegation astatine the BJP and the Election Commission successful West Bengal for tampering with the EVMs. Sharing a CCTV video of the EVM beardown room, the enactment accused the BJP workers of trying to manipulate the votes successful the lack of immoderate applicable authority.
EC responding to the allegations issued an authoritative connection updating astir the information measures taken for a just predetermination counting.TMC besides shared astir its leaders Shashi Panja and Kunal Ghosh protesting astatine Netaji Indoor Stadium, wherever the EVM beardown country has been acceptable up portion the Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is besides acceptable to arrive.Sharing the video connected X, they wrote, "Alarming! This is the execution of ideology successful wide daylight.
CCTV footage has exposed however BJP, successful progressive collusion with the EC, is opening ballot boxes without the beingness of immoderate applicable enactment stakeholders. This is gross electoral fraud being committed openly with the afloat cognition and extortion of the Election Commission."
It further alleged, "They person tried each soiled trick, sanction deletion, elector intimidation, Central Force terror, currency flooding, and failed miserably.
Now, successful sheer desperation, they person stooped to tampering with EVMs. But Bengal is not Maharashtra, Delhi, oregon Bihar. We volition not beryllium silently and ticker them loot our democracy."The authoritative grip of the Trinamool Congress further updated upon the protestation by the enactment leaders, saying, "Our leaders Smt. Shashi Panja and Shri Kunal Ghosh person already begun a dharna extracurricular Netaji Indoor Stadium. Smt. Mamata Banerjee volition personally sojourn the spot and instrumentality banal of the situation.
The radical of Bengal are watching this daylight robbery. We volition not let the Delhi Zamindars and their puppet Election Commission to bargain the mandate of the people.
"The Election Commission took relationship of the concern and released a elaborate statement. It said, "With notation to video being circulated connected societal media handles, determination are 7 AC beardown rooms wrong the Kgudiram Anushilan Kendra. They each person been duly closed and sealed successful the beingness of Candidates/Election agents and General Observer aft completion of canvass yesterday.
Last Strong country was closed successful the greeting astir 5.15am.
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It further updated connected the precautions taken arsenic it said, "All beardown rooms containing polled EVMs are safely secured and sealed. There is different beardown country successful the aforesaid premise for Postal ballot wherein we person kept AC omniscient polled ballots arsenic done by antithetic polling unit and ETBPS. We had notified each Observers, ROs and requested ROs to pass their candidates and agents astir this.
ROs informed the governmental parties by mail.
"It further added, "The segregation of the ballot was taking spot successful the corridor of beardown rooms containing polled premise from 4pm. The main beardown rooms are safely secured and locked. The aforesaid was duly shown to Shashi Panja, Kunal Ghosh and Kali from BJP."The protestation besides follows the Bengal CM's rejection of the exit canvass projections which showed BJP starring the trends.
