Congress Questions 99% EVM Battery Strength In Haryana

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Congress Rejects Haryana Assembly Poll Verdict

By Raisina Correspondent

New Delhi, October 8: The Congress on Tuesday rejected the Haryana Assembly poll verdict. The Congress questioned the battery strength of the electronic voting machines after the counting of votes was over.

The Congress leader, Pawan Khera, alleged that “there were specific complaints about the possible manipulations of the EVMs”. He said, some of the candidates referred to some EVMs having 99 per cent battery strength even after many rounds of the counting.

“The results from all such machines went against the Congress. Whereas, those machines, whose battery strength was normal, between 60 to 70 per cent, showed the Congress candidates to be winning,” alleged Khera.

Khera said, there were several other serious complaints which were being collected and in the coming days the party will approach the Election Commission of India. “Yeh tantra ki jeet aur loktantra ki haar hai (this is the defeat of democracy by manipulating the system),” he remarked.

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Asserting that the results were questionable, Jairam Ramesh said that the Congress had been shown losing even in those seats, where there was no scope of its candidates losing. Ramesh is former Union Minister and also the chief of the communication department of the Congress.

“Results in Haryana are totally unexpected, completely surprising and counter intuitive going against ground reality and what the people of Haryana had made their mind for which was for change and transformation,” Ramesh alleged.

Ramesh also said that “it is not possible for us to accept the results that have been announced today”. Asserting that serious questions have been raised by the party candidates, he said, “what we have seen in Haryana today, is a victory of manipulation, a victory of subverting the will of the people and a defeat for the transparent democratic processes”.

Ramesh claimed that “chapter on Haryana is not complete, it will continue”. “The Congress has been made to lose by misuse of means and people’s sentiments were different as the ground reality was in favour of change and transformation,” claimed Ramesh.

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The Congress, meanwhile, vowed to work for restoration of Jammu and Kashmir statehood. Ramesh said that the Congress will brainstorm on the party winning just six Assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Congress rejected the Haryana elections results as “unexpected, unacceptable and a defeat for democracy”. The party will be approaching the Election Commission of India with serious complaints that have come from across the state about anomalies in counting of votes.

Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here today, party general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh and chairman of the media and publicity department Pawan Khera maintained that the election results in Haryana were totally in contravention of the ground realities and public sentiment that was for change and transformation.

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