Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led government at the Centre over the amendment made in the Conduct of Election Rules, saying this was a "systematic conspiracy" by the ruling dispensation to destroy the institutional integrity of the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Releasing its fourth and final list of 38 candidates on Sunday, the AAP has become the first party in the city to declare candidates for all 70 assembly seats in Delhi, even before the announcement of the assembly elections by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Elections to 70 Assembly seats in Delhi are scheduled to be held early next year.
They demanded the poll panel to look into their complaint on legal merits and priority basis to ensure a true and transparent election for the Delhi Assembly. The delegation submitted a detailed report of 5000 pages, as evidence of fake, duplicate and dead voters, also illegal immigrants, Rohingyas listed as voters.
The first issue raised by the Congress memorandum is about the arbitrary deletion of voters and subsequent addition of over 10,000 voters in each constituency in Maharashtra from the final voter lists.
Thanking the voters for reposing faith in the BJP-led NDA for a record third consecutive time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured on Tuesday that some "big decisions" to build a 'Viksit Bharat' (developed India) will be taken during his third term.
The counting of votes for other seats is going on in the state which went to the Lok Sabha polls in two phases on April 19 and April 26.
The Supreme Court also barred YSRCP MLA of Macherla, Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy who is accused of smashing an EVM inside a polling booth, from entering the counting centre.
“We have created a world record with 642 million proud Indian voters casting their vote in the Lok Sabha elections,” said Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar.
The Election Commission has ordered repolling at one polling station each in the Barasat and Mathurapur Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal on Monday, a day before the counting of votes.
