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Ballot papers are history now: CEC Arora

By IANS | Updated: September 18, 2019 23:10 IST

Rejecting Maharashtra opposition parties' demand against use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the upcoming Assembly polls, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Sunil Arora said here on Wednesday, "ballot papers are history now."

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Stating that a few political parties have asked for voting through the ballot papers, Arora said, "We have politely but firmly told them that it's not possible. Ballot papers are history now."

The poll panel was following successive judgments of the Supreme Court on the issue and would continue the policy on counting of votes as was in the last Lok Sabha polls.

Earlier during the day, the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and others met the Election Commission top brass here and made that demand.

Referring to a list of alleged bogus voters, submitted by the Congress, Arora said the work of deleting such voters was an ongoing process and was underway. The state poll authorities had been asked to make the electoral rolls error-free, he added.

Arora had earlier told the Congress delegation the EC had deleted 2.16 lakh bogus voters in Maharashtra and the process to delete more such fake voters were on, Congress general secretary Rajesh Sharma said.

"The EC told us while 2.16 lakh fake voters have been deleted, the process is on to delete the rest," he said.

The Congress delegation, led by Sharma and the legal cell member Gauri Chhabria, called on Election Commissioners Arora, Ashok Lavasa and Sunil Chandra.

"Last February, before the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress had submitted a lisdt of fake voters to the EC, but not all have been deleted from rolls", Sharma said.

The Shiv Sena and the NCP also sought a rise in the poll expenditure limits and concessions in mandatory advertisement rates, to which the CEC said he would discuss the issue with officials.

The CEC delegation is here to review the pre-poll preparedness and meet the state elections officials, district collectors and superintendents of police, railways and other department officers, representatives of political parties to understand their issues, problems and demands.

( With inputs from IANS )

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