Earlier in Chhattisgarh, two suspicious persons were found outside the EVM strong room with laptops and mobile phones who claimed to be Jio employees.
Kishanganj| Amidst the reports of EVMs being tampered in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, another such incident has come to fore in Rajasthan which went for polling on Friday. A ballot unit has been found lying on the road in the state’s Kishanganj assembly constituency.
The shocking incident led to Election Commission suspending two of its officials amidst the public furore. The EC issued an order stating that Abdul Rasheeq and Patwari Naval Singh were suspended with immediate effect on Friday after the unit was near a highway found in constituency’s Shahabad area in Baran district.
#WATCH: A ballot unit was found lying on road in Shahabad area of Kishanganj Assembly Constituency in Baran district of Rajasthan yesterday. Two officials have been suspended on grounds of negligence. #RajasthanElections pic.twitter.com/yq7F1mbCFV
— ANI (@ANI) December 8, 2018
A news agency has put out a video of an official tumbling upon the ballot system. The video has gone viral since then and created a furore.
This is not the first time that such an incident of negligence has come to light. Earlier in Chhattisgarh, two suspicious persons were found outside the EVM strong room with laptops and mobile phones who claimed to be Jio employees.
Even after Madhya Pradesh elections, an EVM strong room in Bhopal was left without electricity for nearly one and a half hours, disrupting live status of the machines. At the strong room in Sagar, it was reported that a group of polling officers arrived with 50 EVMs around 48 hours after the polling ended on November 28.
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