"This is Ashima Patra's booth. Last time, rigging of EVM happened here. When I reached here rigging was underway peacefully. Some people present here are giving protection, police are not doing anything. They are giving 'Go Back' slogans because we are creating trouble in the rigging process
"Everything is going on fine...There were instances of threatening at 2-3 places at a booth in Balagarh, Dhaniakhali. EVM machines are not working at a few locations but work is going on those," Chatterjee said speaking to ANI on Monday as the fifth phase of voting is underway.
Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader, Digvijaya Singh, on Monday visited the EVM stong room in Madhya Pradesh's Guna amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking review of its judgement rejecting the plea for 100 per cent verification of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) votes with their Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips.
Polling parties were dispatched along with the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) on Sunday to the polling stations for the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha election 2024, to be held on May 13.
Repolling at four polling stations under Multai Assembly constituency of Betul Lok Sabha is currently underway as a few EVMs were damaged in a fire accident earlier.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) ordered repolling at four booths in Madhya Pradesh's Betul Lok Sabha seat on May 10 after electronic voting machines (EVMs) were damaged when a bus ferrying them and polling officials caught fire on Tuesday night.
A bus carrying polling officials and electronic voting machines (EVM) caught fire in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district while returning from Goula village on Tuesday night, causing damage to a few EVMs, according to a senior police official.
Polling officials on Tuesday sealed Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and VVPATs after voting for the third phase of Lok Sabha elections concluded in Madhya Pradesh.
"In Sangola city at polling booth number 86 a voter tried to set fire to an EVM. The three ballot units looked a little black but they are intact. The control unit & VVPAT are also intact. We replaced the EVM machines, we conducted a mock poll on new EVM machines and the voting process s
Addressing a press conference in Bhopal, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anupam Rajan said that they spoke to Guna collector in this regard and no such incident was reported there.
A total of nine parliamentary constituencies in the state--Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh and Betul--will go to the polls in the third phase of the LS polls tomorrow.