The Congress on Friday filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) alleging serious and grave inconsistencies in the data relating to the polling and counting processes for the recently concluded assembly elections in Maharashtra.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) should release the video footage of polling stations where the voting purportedly increasedleading to a sudden and major increase in 76 lakh votes, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president Nana Patole has demanded.
Voting began at 7 am on Wednesday for the single-phase Maharashtra assembly elections and will conclude at 6 pm. Polling is taking place across 288 assembly constituencies.
Voting commenced at 7 am on Wednesday for the second phase of the Jharkhand Assembly elections, covering the remaining 38 seats.
“A voter turnout of 66.65 per cent has been recorded across 43 Assembly constituencies in phase-1 of Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024, surpassing the turnout by 2.75 per cent in these seats in 2019 elections,” the poll panel said.
Kejriwal and his wife Sunita Kejriwal cast their votes during the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls. Apart from Sunita Kejriwal, the Delhi Chief Minister was accompanied by his two children and father.
The Commission and its officials across the states have been disseminating voter turnout data in the best possible manner, taking into account statutory considerations, it said.
According to the poll body, West Bengal recorded the highest voter turnout (77.99 per cent) followed by Jharkhand (61.41 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (52.02 per cent), Odisha (59.60 per cent), Jammu and Kashmir (51.35 per cent), Bihar (52.24 per cent), Haryana (55.93 per cent), and Delhi (53.73 per cent).
In a social media post on X, he specially urged women voters and youth voters to vote in large numbers.
More than 25 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 11 am in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls in 58 constituencies spread across eight States and Union Territories.
