Assam Assembly Election 2021 Update 7-4-21

An electoral party was traveling in the car of a BJP candidate in the Assam constituency in Ratabari. Twitter @ atanubhuyan

On Wednesday, Congress demanded that CCTV feed from strong rooms across Assam be made available to candidates, the head of the state Congress said.

The President of the Congress of Assam, Ripun Bora, has written a letter to the state electoral director, Nitin Khade, requesting access to CCTV signals from the security rooms, where
Electronic Voting Machines are maintained to make the process more transparent.

Congress also accused the Electoral Commission of acting “on instructions from the BJP.” “After the second phase of the assembly votes, when many problems related to EVMs arose, the EC had assured us that such an incident would not occur in the third phase. But we are receiving reports from people who detect that EVMs are transported in private vehicles even during the third phase of the polls yesterday.

“We thought that EC would learn from its mistakes, but we were wrong. It shows that EC works according to the instructions of the BJP. It is not neutral,” Bora told reporters.
conference here. The electoral body must clarify under what circumstances EVMs were being transported by electoral officials without security personnel in various locations while the vote was taking place, Bora said.

“Today, we have written a letter to the CEO seeking a CCTV surveillance link of the security rooms for the candidates,” said MP Rajya Sabha.

Bora also expressed dissatisfaction with the “inaction” of the EC on the complaints made by Congress and other opposition parties against the BJP. Speaking about the prospects for the elections, the head of the state Congress said that the opposition’s Grand Alliance will win more than 100 seats out of 126 according to “independent” polls conducted by some agencies.

On April 2, Union Interior Minister Amit Shah requested an investigation from the Electoral Commission after a dispute broke out over an electoral team in Assam that was found carrying an EVM in the vehicle belonging to the wife of a BJP candidate.

Taking notice of the controversy, the voting panel suspended on April 2 the president of the voting station, where the EVM was voted, and three other officials.