Around 4,000 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were destroyed after a massive fire broke out at a government building in Kolkata's Alipore area, according to reports. The blaze, which engulfed parts of the multi-storey structure, took firefighters nearly 24 hours to bring under control, the Navbharat Times reported.
The fire erupted on Wednesday at a nine-storey government building in south Kolkata that houses several government offices, including the South 24 Parganas Zilla Parishad office. According to state officials, approximately 4,000 EVMs stored in the building were damaged in the incident.
