Days after Janta Ka Reporter reported on how EVMs were being taken out of a strongroom in Uttar Pradesh’s high-profile Amethi parliamentary constituency, another video has surfaced showing similar attempts being made at another strongroom in the state. The new video is of Domariyaganj, where BJP’s Jagdambika Pal is pitted against the grand alliance’s BSP candidate Aftab Alam and Chandrash of the Congress.
While sharing the video, journalist Anil Tiwari of UttarPradesh.org website wrote, “Attempts to exchange EVMs in Domariyaganj Lok Sabha seat. Attempts to take out two vehicles full of EVMs from the strongroom in the city headquarter’s Navin Mandi strongroom. Local residents and BSP workers stopped the vehicles full of EVMs at the main entrance, alleged grand alliance workers.”
डुमरियागंज लोक सभा मे evm को बदलने के कोशिश का मामला।
जनपद मुख्यालय के नवीन मंडी में बने स्ट्रांग रूम से 2 गाड़ियों में भर कर evm को निकालने की कोशिश।
स्थानीय लोगों और बसपा कार्यकर्ताओं ने evm लदी गाड़ी को गेट पर रोका।
गठबंधन कार्यकर्ताओ का आरोप।@ceoup @ECISVEEP pic.twitter.com/fdi8bSXl5S— Anil Tiwari (@Interceptors) May 14, 2019
Tiwari also tagged the Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh and the Election Commission of India. Neither of them have chosen to react to the stunning allegation of EVMs being transported out of the strongroom. Strongroom is where the EVMs are kept after the polling is over until the counting day.
On 9 May, a video of EVMs being taken out of a strongroom in Amethi in Uttar Pradesh and loaded on a truck had caused panic among Congress supporters in the area. Congress President Rahul Gandhi is seeking re-election from here with Union Minister Smriti Irani contesting opposite him as the BJP candidate.
SDM Vandita Shrivastava was quoted as saying that a requisition had been received to send the machines to constituencies where polling is scheduled on May 12 in the sixth phase and where there is a shortage of machines.
The latest development comes just days after Janta Ka Reporter reported how RTI replies obtained by a Mumbai-based activist Manoranjan Roy had revealed that nearly 20 lakh EVMs had gone missing and the national poll body had no clue about it. The ECI had later bullied Twitter India to remove the video blog of Janta Ka Reporter founder Rifat Jawaid. Janta Ka Reporter has decided to file a case against both the Election Commission and Twitter India.