Miffed Over Maharashtra Loss, Congress Writes To Poll Panel, Wants Inquiry
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In a 12-page document submitted this afternoon, the Congress also referred to doubts about voter data that were raised by former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi.
The Congress - still fuming over defeat in the Maharashtra election - submitted an "urgent memorandum" to the Election Commission Friday, asking for an in-person meeting to red-flag "certain serious and grave inconsistencies... in data related to polling and counting processes". Here is a memorandum just submitted to @ECISVEEP on the Maharashtra assembly elections by Shri @NANA_PATOLE, Shri @MukulWasnik, and Shri Ramesh @chennithalaThey have raised serious issues which are being discussed in the public domain. They have asked the EC for an in-person… pic.twitter.com/K4zfx5tjhF
In a 12-page document submitted this afternoon, the Congress also referred to doubts about voter data that were raised by former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi and raised two points of concern.
The first was "arbitrary deletion of voters. and subsequent addition of over 10,000 voters in each constituency" and the second was an "inexplicable increase in voting percentages..."
