New Delhi:
Leaders of the Congress, after the occasion’s big setback in Haryana, met the Election Fee this night and registered a robust grievance, alleging that Digital Voting Machines have been hacked. Social gathering spokesman Pawan Khera mentioned the hacking befell throughout 20 seats, for seven of which they’ve submitted documentary proof. The papers for the opposite 13 shall be submitted inside 48 hours, he mentioned.
‘We’ve requested that every one the machines be sealed and secured until investigations are accomplished,” Mr Khera informed reporters. The occasion, he mentioned, has submitted proof of hacking at Karnal, Dabwali, Rewari, Panipat Metropolis, Hodal, Kalka and Narnaul.
“Counting of votes in a good, clear and accountable method is the hallmark of any electoral course of that claims to be in consonance with the ideas of free and honest elections and the doctrine of the level-playing subject as envisaged by the Structure,” the occasion memorandum to the EC mentioned.
“It’s a stunning end result. Everybody mentioned Congress will kind authorities,” mentioned former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was the face of Congress marketing campaign and the occasion’s Chief Ministerial candidate.
Alleging tinkering, Mr Hooda mentioned the Congress all the time wins when the postal ballots are opened however the numbers begin sliding as soon as the counting of votes from Digital Voting Machines or EVMs begins.
The Congress gained on 37 of Haryana’s 90 seats – remaining far behind the BJP, which with 48 seats gained a historic third time period. Because the voting development turned clear throughout yesterday’s counting, the occasion mentioned the outcomes had been “unacceptable” and alleged that the EVMs have been hacked, drawing derisive jeers from the BJP.
The Election Fee had denied any EVM discrepancy. In a letter to Congress chief President Mallikarjun Kharge at this time, the Election Fee referred to the “outcomes usually are not acceptable” remarks of Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and Pawan Khera.
“Such an unprecedented assertion as above in a generic sense, unheard within the wealthy democratic heritage of the nation, is much from a authentic a part of free speech and expression and strikes in the direction of an undemocratic rejection of the need of the folks expressed in accordance with the Statutory and Regulatory electoral framework, uniformly utilized throughout all elections within the nation together with J-Okay and Haryana,” the letter learn.