EVM buttons of other parties 'locked' : Shiv Sena
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 07 2022:
Alleging that EVMs were tied with bamboo chips and EVM buttons against which election symbols of different candidates were displayed were covered with tapes at some polling stations while the buttons assigned to BJP candidates were kept open, Shiv Sena State unit has asked if BJP would not be ashamed of forming Government after winning the election through such blatant manipulation of the election process.
Speaking to media persons at their Babupara office today, Shiv Sena State unit president Moirangthem Tombi maintained that SoO groups openly supporting BJP was their right.
However, Electronic Voting Machines were tied with bamboo chips and buttons against election symbols of rival candidates were covered with tapes while keeping the BJP candidates' buttons open.
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Such blatant manipulation of the election process has projected Chura-chandpur district as the strangest place in the world, Tombi said.
People have been frightened by such blatant manipulation of the election process by the BJP-led Governments of the Centre and the State, he said.
When people spoke anything against them, the critics were arrested and put in jail but when their own men indulge in all kinds of wrongdoings, BJP does not say anything.
Such double-standard nature and hypocrisy have rendered the whole election process meaningless, he continued.
Saying that Shiv Sena would raise the issue in Parliament, Tombi urged all concerned to stop forfeiting the rights of voters.
The matter would be taken to Supreme Court, if necessary, after seeking support from different political parties, he added.