Opposition events in Maharashtra have but to just accept the ballot verdict and have continued to lift questions concerning the Digital Voting Machine and the function of the Election Fee of India. Nevertheless, the Maharashtra Election Fee on Tuesday stated that there was no mismatch within the voting information when the VVPAT slips and the EVM figures had been tallied as a part of the verification course of.
ECI’s Clear Chit To System
“It’s obligatory to rely VVPAT slips of Randomly Chosen 5 Polling Stations per Meeting Constituency / Meeting Section as per the rules of the Election Fee of India,” stated the Chief Election Officer Maharashtra.
The officer additional added, “Accordingly, VVPAT Slip rely of randomly chosen 5 polling stations per Meeting Constituency has been performed on 23/11/2024 throughout the counting process, in entrance of the Counting Observer / Representatives of Candidates. As per that, slip rely of 1440 VVPAT items from 288 Meeting Constituencies of Maharashtra State has been tallied with respective Management Unit information.”
“There isn’t any discrepancy discovered between the VVPAT slip rely and EVM Management unit rely as per the reviews obtained from the involved DEOs. Due process laid by ECI has been adopted,” stated the CEO, Maharashtra.
BJP Dares Sharad Pawar
With the opposition crying foul, the BJP has dared Sharad Pawar to make NCP(SP) MLAs and MPs resign. BJP chief Gopichand Padalkar on Tuesday dared Sharad Pawar to ask his daughter and grandnephew to resign as MP and MLA, respectively, if they do not belief EVMs. BJP MLA Padalkar and MLC Sadabhau Khot addressed a public assembly in Markadwadi village in Solapur district which has emerged because the epicentre of anti-EVM protests after villagers unsuccessfully tried to carry a mock “repoll” utilizing poll papers final week.
Maharashtra Village To Boycott EVM
Kolewadi village, positioned in Maharashtra’s Satara district, has determined to conduct all future elections utilizing poll papers, turning into the second village within the state to cross a decision opposing the usage of digital voting machines (EVMs). This village falls inside the Karad (South) meeting constituency, which was beforehand represented by senior Congress chief and former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan. Within the November elections, Chavan misplaced to BJP candidate Atul Bhosale by a margin of 39,355 votes.
The decision was adopted after residents of Kolewadi voiced issues and skepticism relating to the credibility of votes solid by EVMs.
Earlier, Maharashtra’s Markadwadi village has hit the headlines final week after a piece of villagers tried to conduct mock ‘re-polling’ utilizing poll papers expressing doubt concerning the credibility of EVMs. Their bid was thwarted by the administration and police, resulting in the registration of instances. If the administration does not enable us to vote on poll papers, we’ll boycott the polling course of, stated the villagers. (With ANI/PTI inputs)
