GUWAHATI: The Election Fee of India on Saturday ordered repolling in 4 polling cubicles of Assam. Repolling shall be held on the polling stations in Ratabari, Sonai and Haflong constituencies on April 20, the ECI stated in a letter addressed to the Chief Electoral Officer, Assam. “The Fee declares void, the votes solid at these polling stations on April 1,” it stated.
All of the three constituencies went to polls within the second part of Assam meeting elections on April 1.
The ECI order stated, repolling shall be held at Ratabari (SC) contituency’s polling station quantity 149 at Indira MV Faculty, after an digital voting machine (EVM) was present in a automobile belonging to the spouse of a BJP candidate.
A magisterial probe was ordered by Karimganj district Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer to investigate as to why a polling workforce in Assam carried a polled EVM in a car owned by the spouse of BJP candidate and sitting MLA Krishnendu Paul.
In an auxiliary polling station at 107(A)-Khothlir LP Faculty below Haflong meeting constituency, 171 votes have been solid despite the fact that 90 folks have been eligible to train their franchise.
The presiding and first polling officer of their statements had admitted that that they had allowed the voters registered on the most important polling station at 107-Mouldam LP Faculty to solid their votes on the auxiliary polling station.
Repolling has additionally been ordered in Sonai constituencys 463- Madhya Dhanehori LP Faculty polling sales space the place at the least three individuals have been injured in an incident of firing, following which the state’s deputy speaker and BJP candidate Aminul Haque Laskar was questioned by the police and 5 police personnel connected to him have been suspended.
