In a letter to the Congress party, the Commission urged them to refrain from making unfounded claims after every election, accusing the party of creating "generic" doubts without substance.
The Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi, P Krishnamurthy, initiated an awareness campaign of EVM & VVPAT for the Delhi Assembly Election, 2025. The initiative has been in progress since October 15, 2024, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer said.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected that plea seeking direction to the election commission to conduct the re-election in twenty assembly seats in Haryana alleging suspicious results and EVMs discrepancy.
The plea was filed by Priya Mishra and Vikas Bansal through advocate Narendra Mishra who said that the Election Commission of India (ECI) declared the election (of the State Legislative Assemblies through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) based on accuracy.
He further emphasized that the BJP has done the development and welfare work in Maharashtra and in both Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the party will form the government.
CEC Kumar also explained that EVMs had three-layered security and signatures of political party representatives were taken to ensure transparency. "When a machine is commissioned, the battery is put on that day, this is done five or six days before voting. .. even on the battery there are
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday questioned the practice of showing winning/losing trends 5 to 10 minutes after the official beginning of counting at 8 am on election result days and said that "huge distortion" was created due to exit polls, calling for "self-introspection
Speaking to ANI, Kumar said "The public answers questions by participating in the voting. As far as the EVMs are concerned, they are 100 per cent foolproof. If they raise questions today again, we will tell them again."
"We have sent a list of 20 seats to the Election Commission regarding which our candidates have submitted written and verbal complaints of 99 per cent battery charge. This issue was raised on the day of counting..."
Speaking to ANI, Rawat said, "Philosophy behind using a battery in an EVM is that it has no connection outside the world. If the EVM is operated with electricity by using cord then political parties will allege that it is being tampered through the cord. Therefore, the election commission ha
Addressing the media persons after the meeting, Congress leader Pawan Khera said that they have informed the ECI about the 20 complaints they received from the 20 constituencies, out of which, seven are written complaints. The party said that ECI has assured them of looking into the matte