On Sunday, Election Commission ordered a repoll in two booths in Bengal, one in Deganga under Barasat Lok Sabha constituency and the other in Kakdwip under Mathurapur constituency. The repoll will be conducted on 3rd June from 7am and will continue till 6pm.
The booth in the Barasat constituency is situated at the Kadambagachi Saradar Para FP School in the Deganga assembly segment, on the other hand the one in Mathurapur is based at the Aaddir Mahal Srichaitanya Bidyapith in the Kakdwip assembly seat. The panel said that the decision was made based on the reports from poll officials and after taking all material circumstances on record.
The EC order came in the backdrop of Bengal BJP on Sunday demanding a repoll in approximately 420 booths in Diamond Harbour and 11 booths in Mathurapur LS constituencies. The party reported a number of malpractices had taken place and demanded a repoll in all 256 booths in Falta.
BJP’s Diamond Harbour candidate, Abhijit Das, claimed: “They had pasted tapes on EVMs to block BJP’s name and button, pasted symbols on the walls, intentionally turned CCTV cameras in the wrong direction.” However, EC, did not pay heed to the allegations. No repoll was commanded at any booth in Diamond Harbour constituency.
Kunal Ghosh, Former TMC Rajya Sabha MP, said BJP was making bogus claims because it “lacked organisational capacity” and failed to appoint polling agents.
Subhasis Chakraborty, TMC’s Diamond Harbour president and chairman of Mathurapur election committee, said: “BJP took a month to select a candidate for Diamond Harbour and even more time to arrange agents in each of the nearly 2,000 booths. Despite that, they could not man each booth. They lost the vote and need to say something as a face-saver”
Author: Sangi Roy
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