“How Did This Go Up”: Mamata Banerjee Questions Revised Poll Figures

Kolkata:

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee raised alarm in the present day over a discrepancy in voting figures issued by the Election Commission on Tuesday night — 4 days after the Phase 2 polls. In areas the place the BJP is prone to get fewer votes than her Trinamool Congress, turnout knowledge has all of the sudden gone up, she claimed.

“Last night at 9:30 pm, suddenly heard that there was 5.75 per cent vote in areas where BJP got less votes. In those places suddenly the vote has increased. The Election Commission has issued a notice,” she stated.  

“How did this figure go up? Suddenly figures are going up and around 19 lakh voting machines are missing for a long time,” Ms Banerjee stated.

“We will tell the Election Commission, remove the suspicion of the people. There is no point in becoming the BJP Commission. The people of India want to see you work as an independent Election Commission,” she added.

The Commission, which sends the ultimate polling figures late within the night of the polling day, or the following morning, despatched a revised set of figures final night. In it, the ultimate determine for Phase One in Bengal was 81.91 per cent and for Phase Two, 76.58 per cent.

This is up from the figures on the day of polling — 77.6 per cent for Phase One on April 19 and 71.eight per cent for Phase two on April 26.

In Bengal’s prolonged ballot routine — the state is voting in all seven phases — North Bengal’s Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, and Jalpaiguri went to polls in Phase 1 and Balurghat, Raiganj and Darjeeling in Phase 2. Most of those seats are held by the BJP, which is attempting to push up their numbers within the state from 18 to 25 of 42 constituencies.

The row over the recent figures from the Commission comes every week after the Supreme Court gave a large vote of confidence to Electronic Voting machines and turned down a handful of appeals for a return to poll paper.

EVMs have eradicated sales space capturing by proscribing the speed of balloting to 4 votes per minute. They have additionally eradicated invalid votes, which have been a significant challenge with paper ballots and had usually sparked disputes throughout counting course of, the court docket had stated.