Wednesday, May 7, 2014

AAP alleges booth capturing, rigging in Amethi with evidendce

The Aam Aadmi Party has condemned the ineffectiveness of the Election Commission in preventing booth capturing and rigging in atleast 13 polling booths in the Amethi Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency during voting on May 7, 2014.

AAP has made public the photographic evidence of Congress candidate Rahul Gandhi himself trying to operate an electronic voting machine (EVM) at a polling booth when the voting was on.
 
The AAP has found that booth numbers – 34, 37, 38, 108, 109, 110, 111, 187, 195, 203 and 204 were captured by the Congress workers and AAP polling agents were not allowed inside booth numbers 41 and 42, therefore no factual report about these two booths is available.  

Should the Election Commission not take immediate action against the concerned staff who allowed Gandhi to have a free run and make a mockery of the free and fair election ?

It is shocking that the Congress party indulged in large-scale rigging in the so-called fiefdom of the Gandhi family. Congress flags were seen at a number of government schools in the constituency, of which many photographs are available.

When the media and political parties could see all this, is it possible that the EC observers and local authorities could not see it or had they decided to look the other way to please the political masters who had appointed them ?

The conduct of the local authorities at Amethi and the silence of EC over the large-scale irregularities during voting is an extremely dangerous sign for the democracy.

The current Lok Sabha elections have exposed the limitations of the Election Commission and have shown that the commission is unable to effectively implement the election laws.

While the AAP candidate Kumar Vishwas was harassed in Amethi at every point to disrupt his election campaign, the commission waited for a complaint against the personal assistant of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to order her removal from the constituency on the polling day.

In a statement AAP has said that it will take recourse to all legal remedies to ensure that the people of Amethi are not cheated.    

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