All polls held as per law: Election Commission tells Rahul Gandhi on Maharashtra poll rigging allegations
It also emphasised that the entire poll exercise involves thousands of personnel, including booth-level agents appointed by political parties.
New Delhi: The Election Rate has formally written to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on his allegations of rigging within the 2024 Maharashtra polls, asserting all polls are held by it strictly as per laws passed by Parliament and rules.
It moreover emphasised that your whole poll squawk entails thousands of personnel, in conjunction with gross sales space-stage agents appointed by political parties.
In a letter emailed to Gandhi on June 12 in accordance alongside with his article in a number one each day, the EC talked about your whole election assignment is conducted in a decentralised system at the assembly constituency stage, which enthusiastic better than 1,00,186 Booth Level Officers (BLOs), 288 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), 139 Classic Observers, 41 Police Observers, 71 Expenditure Observers and 288 Returning Officers (ROS) appointed by the Rate.
Moreover 1,08,026 Booth Level Agents (BLAs) are appointed by Nationwide and Utter Political Parties, in conjunction with 28,421 of Congress, across Maharashtra.
“We presume that any recount relating to conduct of elections would agree with already been raised thru election petitions filed within the competent court of regulation (excessive court) by the INC candidates,” it told the Chief of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.
“On the opposite hand, at the same time as you unexcited agree with any issues, you is prone to be welcome to jot down to us and the Rate is moreover willing to fulfill you in individual at a mutually handy date and time to discuss all issues,” the poll authority talked about.
(With PTI Inputs)
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