New Delhi: INDIA bloc leaders will meet the Election Commission of India (ECI) today over their demand to promptly release the absolute voter turnout figures in the ongoing General Elections after each phase, according to a report. The leaders from the Opposition bloc will meet the full bench of the Election Commission of India on Thursday afternoon, submit a memorandum and also discuss the issues with the poll panel. Airing their concerns over the alleged “delay” in the release of the voter turnout data in the first two phases, the Congress, Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), have written to the poll panel separately so far. ECI has stated that booth-wise data of the “actual number of votes polled” is available with the candidates soon after the voting ends.
Two BJP members were on Wednesday taken into custody in Gujarat’s Mahisagar district over alleged bogus voting after the act was live-streamed on social media and the video went viral. The Congress has claimed that the accused had visited 25 polling stations and indulged in bogus voting in the Gothib taluka panchayat in Santrampur as well.
Over 85 per cent voter turnout was registered in the repolling held on Wednesday at a polling station in Dudhwa Khurd in Rajasthan’s Barmer Lok Sabha constituency. The Election Commission has ordered the repolling following complaints of a breach of confidentiality after some videos showing bogus voting and voters being denied their right to franchise surfaced on social media.
The political parties have intensified their poll campaigns ahead of the voting for the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on May 13. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed a poll rally in Telangana where he launched an all-out attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi questioning the party’s sudden silence on Adani and Ambani and questioned them on having received money from the industrialists.
Addressing a public meeting in Telangana’s Karimpur, PM Modi said that for years the Congress’ ‘Shehzada’ used to speak of ‘5 industrialists’ and then he started to speak only of “Ambani and Adani” and now they are silent on them.
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