Lucknow. Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday attacked Varanasi District Magistrate (Kaushal Raj Sharma) Kaushal Raj Sharma on Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) without giving any information to the local candidates. ) charged with carrying. He asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to look into the issue.
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The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister alleged that, “The DM of Varanasi is taking EVMs without giving any information to the local candidates. The Election Commission should look into this.” He said, “If EVMs are being transported like this then we need to be cautious. This is theft. We need to save our votes. We can go to court against this but before that I want to appeal to the people to save democracy.”
Samajwadi Chief Akhilesh Yadav alleges, “Varanasi DM is transporting EVMs without giving any information to local candidates. EC should look into it.” pic.twitter.com/CUmRPijB1j
— ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2022
Officials tampering with EVM
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh said that Samajwadi Party is winning Ayodhya, so BJP is scared. He has also claimed that Election Commission officials are tampering with EVMs.
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Earlier on Monday, several exit polls have predicted victory for the BJP and its allies in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. To this Akhilesh said, “Exit polls only want to create an impression that BJP is winning.”
exit polls a way to create mental pressure
At the same time, Akhilesh’s aide, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Jayant Choudhary has a similar view. He said, “Until EVMs are opened, no one can know the result. There is a process of exit polls. No exit poll persons were seen at the polling stations. I don’t know where they got the data. It is an approach. And I don’t agree with that. It’s a way of creating mental pressure.”
All candidates have been called, list of EVMs that were used on polling day were mailed to them. Hard copy being given today. These 20 EVMs (for training), are separately kept in vehicle. Numbers are being matched & shown to candidates that these are not polled EVMs: Varanasi DM pic.twitter.com/jdUg0Utnsc
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) March 8, 2022
20 EVM machines were being taken away
On the other hand, Varanasi District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said on Akhilesh’s statement that, “Yesterday there is training of counting staff of Varanasi in a college. 20 EVM machines were being taken for him. He was stopped by some people in a buggy. There was a confusion among those people that whether these are those EVM machines or not.
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The District Magistrate said, “Later there was a crowd here. All the officers explained to him. Now the candidates and presidents of all the parties have been called to make it clear to all of you that the EVMs that were being carried were for all training.
Counting training without EVM
He said, “This EVM and that EVM are not related to each other. Everything is being clarified. We have now decided that tomorrow the counting training of the employees will be done without EVMs.”