Chandigarh: Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said the party received very serious complaints on the process of counting of voyes and functioning of EVMs in at least three Haryana districts.
Congress statement
Addressing the media on Tuesday evening, Congress General Secretary and Communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh said, "All afternoon, I've been in touch with the Election Commission. The Election Commission has replied to my complaint, I've replied to the reply. We've received very serious complaints on the process of counting, the functioning of EVMs in at least three districts. We've spoken to our senior colleagues in Haryana. This information is being collected, and we hope to present this in a consolidated form to the Election Commission."
Ramesh said the results in Haryana are totally unexpected, surprising and counter-intuitive. "It goes against ground reality," he said.
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"This is a victory of subversion of people's will and subversion of the democratic process," he added.
Wrote to the EC
Earlier in the day, Jairam Ramesh wrote to the Election Commission, alleging slowing down of uploading up-to-date trends on the poll panel's website. In response, the poll panel said the Congress's allegations were "irresponsible, unfounded and uncorroborated malafide narratives".
In the counting of votes on Tuesday, the Congress gained lead in the early trends, leading to celebrations in the party offices in Delhi and Chandigarh. However, the BJP came back from behind and gained a decisive lead. At the time of filing of this report, the BJP has won 39 seats and is ahead on 10 seats and is expected to cross the halfway mark of 46 comfortably.
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"The results in Haryana are completely unexpected and unacceptable. We are receiving many complaints from Hisar, Mahendragarh and Panipat of discrepancy in EVMs. Our candidates have filed complaints to the Returning Officer, but we will take all these complaints to the Election Commission," said Congress leader Pawan Khera. (with Agency inputs)
