The Congress on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of stealing electronic voting machines and manipulating votes in its favour durin...
The Congress on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of stealing electronic voting machines and manipulating votes in its favour during the second phase of Assembly elections in Assam.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi shared a video on Twitter that purportedly shows BJP MLA from Patharkandi, Krishnendu Paul, transporting EVMs in his car on Thursday. In the 45-second clip, EVMs can be seen inside a white coloured jeep. A man who is not in the frame can be heard saying that the vehicle belongs to Paul.
The widely circulated clip was first tweeted by senior Assam-based journalist Atanu Bhuyan, who wrote that the “situation is tense in Patharkandi” because of the incident. The BJP and the Election Commission are yet to respond to the allegation.
2. The videos are taken as one off incidents and dismissed as aberrations
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) April 2, 2021
3. The BJP uses its media machinery to accuse those who exposed the videos as sore losers.
The fact is that too many such incidents are being reported and nothing is being done about them. 2/3
Gandhi deplored the alleged malpractice, and said it was about time that the Election Commission acted decisively on rigging complaints against the BJP. She also called for a “serious re-evaluation” of the use of EVMs...
