Sitaram Yechury. File
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Questioning the delay in releasing the ultimate figures for the proportion of votes forged within the first two phases of the Lok Sabha election, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury in a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, requested the panel to clarify the six per cent surge from the preliminary figures that the EC had put out.
Mr. Yechury in his letter pointed out that EC took 11 days to publish the ultimate figures for the primary part and 4 days for the second part. “Unfortunately, the ECI has not come out with any explanation for the cause of this undue delay. What goes unanswered is also a surge of 6 per cent from the initial figures that the ECI put out and the final figure,” he wrote. He additionally mentioned that this surge is uncommon and “raises some suspicion”.
Mr. Yechury urged the EC within the pursuits of “transparency and credibility” to clear the doubts and publish State-wise, constituency-wise and Assembly phase clever break-up of the preliminary and ultimate proportion as additionally the variety of votes forged.