Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi (Photo: IANS)

Congress flays EC for rejecting VVPAT slip count plea

New Delhi: Hours after the Election Commission on Wednesday rejected demand of 23 opposition parties to count the VVPAT slips, the Congress hit back saying the poll panel had become enfeebled and dubbed the electronic voting machines (EVMs) as “election victory machines”. Addressing the media at the party headquarters here, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi […]

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Exit polls a game plan to manipulate EVMs: Mamata

Kolkata: Dismissing the exit poll predictions of the Lok Sabha elections as “gossip”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said it was a “game plan to manipulate and replace thousands of EVMs” and urged opposition leaders to stand strong and united. “I don’t trust exit poll gossip. The game plan is to manipulate or […]

Bengal: Women voters waiting for their turn to cast vote (File Photo: IANS)

14.17% voting in WB amid EVM failures, sporadic violence

Kolkata: West Bengal recorded 14.17 per cent polling to the state’s nine Lok Sabha seats amid a few incidents of sporadic violence and reports of EVM failures in several booths leading to either delay or stalling of the poll process, an official said. Long queues of voters of various age groups were seen outside polling booths […]

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EVMs across India faulty or voting for BJP: Akhilesh Yadav

Lucknow: EVMs across India are either malfunctioning or voting for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said on Tuesday. Akhilesh Yadav quoted District Magistrates as saying that election officials were not trained to operate the electronic voting machines (EVMs). More than 350 of them had been […]