Candidates in Outer Manipur lodges complaints
IMPHAL, April 9 (NNN): Even though the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Manipur claims that the polling was relatively peaceful, there were widespread complaints by candidates of Outer Manipur seat. Aam Aadmi Part (AAP) candidate K Zou has lodged complaint to the Election Commission that at polling station 59/25 in Sagang village of Churachandpur district, a man claimed to be the village chief came with many voting slips and kept on pressing the EVM button. Again, at polling station 59/41 in Tuibong area, Churachandpur district, some men numbering around 40 came and asked the Presiding Officer to switch off the CCTV and the generator and then started voting, alleged Zou. Meanwhile, the Naga People's Front (NPF) has lodged complaint to the Returning Officer that cadres of Kuki National Organisation (KNO) had carried booth capturing in polling station numbers of 59/23, 59/24, 59/25 and 59/26. The NPF also said at polling station numbers 43/8, 43/42 and 43/44 the EVMs have been manipulated as no signal alarm was notice on button number 5 which is the Cock Symbol of Soso Lorho, the NPF candidate. The Naga People's Front (NPF), Manipur State, also complaint to the Returning Officer (RO) that in Saikul area at polling station number 49/19 the EVM had ceased around 1:30 pm before the completion of the polling. The BJP has also lodged a complaint to the ECI stating that suspected militants captured booths in Chingai consituency of Ukhrul district in some polling stations.
Mnp Deputy Speaker escapes assassination bid
IMPHAL, April 9 (NNN): Deputy Speaker of Manipur Legislative Assembly Preshow Shimray escaped an assassination bid on his life when suspected hill based militants attacked him in a place called Sareikhong, near Litan under Ukhrul district, at around 3:10 pm. Shimray was returning to Imphal from his constituency Chingai in Ukhrul district after casting his vote in a convoy of eight vehicles when a powerful IED exploded damaging a Tata Safari. Fortunately, Shimray was not in his Tata Safari but in one of the bullet proof vehicles. Police said no one was injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsible for the attack so far.
Repolling in six Assam booths on Thursday
GUWAHATI, April 9 (PTI): Re-polling would be held on Thursday in six polling booths of three of the five Lok Sabha constituencies which went to polls on April 7. Re-polling was ordered in four booths of Jorhat seat, and in one booth each in Dibrugarh and Tezpur constituencies because of EVM malfunctioning during the first phase of polling, an election department official said on Wednesday.
Villagers boycott polls in Arunachal Pradesh
ITANAGAR, April 9 (PTI): Voters of a polling station in Arunachal Pradesh damaged the lone suspension bridge linking the village posing problems of polling officials to reach the booth, IGP (Law and Order) Satyendra Garg informed. Polling officials, however, managed to reach the booth under Panging Assembly segment in East Siang district but the turn-out of voters was zero, Garg said. The 140 voters of Sisen boycotted the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls held simultaneously in the state today to express their ire against the state government's alleged apathy in developing the remote village, official sources said.
IMPHAL, April 9 (NNN): Even though the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Manipur claims that the polling was relatively peaceful, there were widespread complaints by candidates of Outer Manipur seat. Aam Aadmi Part (AAP) candidate K Zou has lodged complaint to the Election Commission that at polling station 59/25 in Sagang village of Churachandpur district, a man claimed to be the village chief came with many voting slips and kept on pressing the EVM button. Again, at polling station 59/41 in Tuibong area, Churachandpur district, some men numbering around 40 came and asked the Presiding Officer to switch off the CCTV and the generator and then started voting, alleged Zou. Meanwhile, the Naga People's Front (NPF) has lodged complaint to the Returning Officer that cadres of Kuki National Organisation (KNO) had carried booth capturing in polling station numbers of 59/23, 59/24, 59/25 and 59/26. The NPF also said at polling station numbers 43/8, 43/42 and 43/44 the EVMs have been manipulated as no signal alarm was notice on button number 5 which is the Cock Symbol of Soso Lorho, the NPF candidate. The Naga People's Front (NPF), Manipur State, also complaint to the Returning Officer (RO) that in Saikul area at polling station number 49/19 the EVM had ceased around 1:30 pm before the completion of the polling. The BJP has also lodged a complaint to the ECI stating that suspected militants captured booths in Chingai consituency of Ukhrul district in some polling stations.
Mnp Deputy Speaker escapes assassination bid
IMPHAL, April 9 (NNN): Deputy Speaker of Manipur Legislative Assembly Preshow Shimray escaped an assassination bid on his life when suspected hill based militants attacked him in a place called Sareikhong, near Litan under Ukhrul district, at around 3:10 pm. Shimray was returning to Imphal from his constituency Chingai in Ukhrul district after casting his vote in a convoy of eight vehicles when a powerful IED exploded damaging a Tata Safari. Fortunately, Shimray was not in his Tata Safari but in one of the bullet proof vehicles. Police said no one was injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsible for the attack so far.
Repolling in six Assam booths on Thursday
GUWAHATI, April 9 (PTI): Re-polling would be held on Thursday in six polling booths of three of the five Lok Sabha constituencies which went to polls on April 7. Re-polling was ordered in four booths of Jorhat seat, and in one booth each in Dibrugarh and Tezpur constituencies because of EVM malfunctioning during the first phase of polling, an election department official said on Wednesday.
Villagers boycott polls in Arunachal Pradesh
ITANAGAR, April 9 (PTI): Voters of a polling station in Arunachal Pradesh damaged the lone suspension bridge linking the village posing problems of polling officials to reach the booth, IGP (Law and Order) Satyendra Garg informed. Polling officials, however, managed to reach the booth under Panging Assembly segment in East Siang district but the turn-out of voters was zero, Garg said. The 140 voters of Sisen boycotted the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls held simultaneously in the state today to express their ire against the state government's alleged apathy in developing the remote village, official sources said.
