GUWAHATI: APCC (Assam Pradesh Congress Committee) president Ripun Bora on Tuesday moved the (CEC) Chief Election Commissioner of India with a complaint against the transportation of unused EVMs and VVPATs to Amingaon in Kamrup district. A team of the APCC, on the other hand, handed over a memorandum to the CEO (Chief Electoral Officer) in Assam on the same issue.
Bora told the CEC that on Sunday last several trucks had been found to transport unused EVMs and VVPATs to a private godown located hardly 300 metres away from the strong room at Amingain near Guwahati. “This entire exercise of the deputy commission of Kamrup in the name of storing the so-called unused EVMs has created strong doubt about manipulation of EVMs…,” Bora told the CEC, and raised the demand for immediate transfer of the deputy commissioner.
Citing the model code of conduct of the election, Bora said that Kamrup deputy commissioner Kamal Baishya is hailing from Sualkuchi, which is 5 km from Amingaon. He should not have been allowed to perform election duty in his home district, Bora said.
Bora further told the CEC that assistant commissioner of Kamrup, Mayuri Oja, daughter of BJP’s Guahati candidate Queen Aja, is also engaged in election duty even as her mother is a candidate from Gauhati Lok Sabha seat. This, Bora said, is violation of the poll code of conduct.
Meanwhile, a team of the APCC met the CEO in Guwahati on Tuesday in protest against, what they said, fishy transportation of EVMs. They demanded the CEO to direct all returning officers to allow political parties and their candidates to inspect the strong room and stores of unused EVMs.
Leader of Opposition of the Assam Assembly Debabrata Saikia also sent a missive to the CEC requesting his immediate intervention and instruction to the CEO, Assam and DEOs of the State not to shift any EVMs from their current locations till the Lok Sabha poll counting is over.
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