Tue. Mar 19th, 2024
Voting

The Madhya Pradesh election commission on Monday released a list of guidelines to maintain law and order situation and security on the day of accounting. Chief electoral officer, State EC VK Kantha Rao told state authorities to ensure that there will be no webcasting during the counting of votes. He also said that WiFi will not be used in the counting hall. CCTV cameras are also to be installed in every counting hall.

The elections in five states were concluded on 7 December, and the results are slated to announce on 11 December. Exit polls have predicted a tight finish between both the major parties –  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.

Earlier to this, Congress Delegation met Election Commission of India on December 4, expressing concern over the security of strong rooms where the Electronic Voting Machines are kept.

In another instance, Congress lodged a complaint to the Election Commission, seeking a probe into the blank postal ballots found unclaimed at the state police’s Home Guard office.

On 7 December, the Madhya Pradesh High Court had dismissed a plea filed by the Congress alleging EVMs malfunctioning and handling issues. The court had refused to interfere in the matter, expressing satisfaction with the action by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

In November, Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat had said that the polling process at 14,000 polling booths in the state would be ‘webcasted’. At the end of his two-day tour in the state on 15 November, Rawat had said that the Election Commission had made arrangements to webcast the proceedings.

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By talharashid

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