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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