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.
Adopting a “hands off” approach in the midst of the ongoing general election, the court noted that polling for the five phases is already over, and the sixth one will go to polls on Saturday.
The last day saw hectic campaigning even though the constituencies were reeling under severe heatwave conditions.
On the last day of campaigning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Haryana’s Bhiwani, Defence minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi’s Dwarka, and Union minister Piyush Goyal held a road show in Najafgarh area of the national capital in support of BJP candidates.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday said more than 62 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the fifth phase of voting in the Lok Sabha elections, which was held on 20th May.
Reports of delays, missing voter names, and inadequate facilities have highlighted systemic failures in the electoral process.
