New Delhi: Elections to decide on the primary non-Gandhi Congress president in over 20 years got here with its share of drama on counting day Wednesday, with the Shashi Tharoor camp alleging a number of malpractices within the Uttar Pradesh polling.
The Tharoor camp, pitted towards the “official” candidate Mallikarjun Kharge, has written a letter to the Chairman of the Congress’ Election Authority (CEA) Madhusudan Mistry, asking for votes solid in Uttar Pradesh to be cancelled.
Tharoor’s chief election agent Salman Soz gave 4 causes behind their demand.
First, was using “unofficial seals” to safe the poll bins within the state. The Tharoor camp mentioned that on voting day Monday, their brokers had raised considerations with pradesh returning officers (PROs) and assistant pradesh returning officers (APROs) on the dearth of a “correct sealing mechanism” for poll bins. At the moment, they had been instructed the seal can be utilized later.
Second purpose, they identified, was the presence of “unauthorised individuals” in polling cubicles. The letter alleged that a minimum of three individuals, who had been “influential native leaders” had been current in polling cubicles and “acted as presiding officers”. One in all them was Omveer Yadav, who proposed Mallikarjun Kharge’s nomination.
The third, was voting malpractice. The Tharoor camp mentioned votes of these delegates who weren’t current in Lucknow had been mysteriously solid. As well as, many delegates apparently came upon that their votes had been polled earlier than they even reached the sales space.
Lastly, the Tharoor camp mentioned the polling abstract sheet, which was to be compulsorily signed by brokers of each candidates on the finish of the method, was not offered to Tharoor’s representatives.
“We didn’t contest this election to simply accept enterprise as standard. We’re able to combat for the integrity of this election,” Soz wrote within the letter.
Presence of AICC in-charges for UP at polling sales space
Soz additionally alleged that All India Congress Committee secretaries in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, Pradeep Narwal, Tauqueer Alam and Dhiraj Gurjar, had been current at totally different polling cubicles in Lucknow, in defiance of the CEA’s rule that normal secretaries and secretaries in-charge of a specific state couldn’t solid their votes of their assigned state.
The foundations state that they must both vote of their house state or on the AICC headquarters in Delhi.
“Different senior leaders (AICC and Pradesh Congress Committee) had been noticed in and round polling cubicles instructing voters to vote a sure method. That AICC secretaries ought to violate the spirit of your directions on October 15 reveals us the impunity with which a few of our colleagues function,” wrote Soz.
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