Assembly Election 2021 LIVE Updates 2-4-2021

Assembly Election 2021 LATEST updates: The saffron party has demanded that Udhayanidhi, who is the son of DMK chief MK Stalin, be excluded from campaigning and his candidacy canceled.

The incident turned into a major controversy on Friday morning with the Opposition Congress and the AIUDF claiming that the EVM was being “stolen”, while the Electoral Commission suspended four electoral officials and ordered a new vote in the booth. when a video of the fiasco went viral. social media.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announced that she will isolate herself after her husband Robert Vadra tested positive for COVID-19 , adding that it will cancel its programs planned to take place in the state on Saturday.

The Election Commission ordered a re-count of an electoral college at Assam’s Ratabari Assembly headquarters after reports emerged that an EVM was being transported in a private vehicle belonging to a BJP candidate.

Amit Shah lashed out at the Mamata Banerjee government, adding that it runs on a 3T model: Tanashahi (dictatorship), Tolabazi (maneuver) and Tushtikaran (appeasement), while Prime Minister Narendra Modi runs it on a 3V model: Vikas ( progress), Vishwas (confidence), Vyapar (business).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticized the DMK and Congress for trying to turn the peace-loving Madurai into a mafia district due to “complications in the first DMK family.”

This is the second such raid against those associated with the DMK ahead of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections on April 6. Last month, DMK candidate EV Velu’s facilities were registered in Tiruvannamalai and Chennai.

A seven-member delegation from Trinamool Congress made up of parliamentarians and ministers will meet with election officials in Kolkata at 1.30pm on Friday. The delegation is expected to discuss the problems they faced during the first two phases of the elections in West Bengal.

Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) candidate Rangja Khungur Basumatary joined BJP on Thursday ahead of the third phase of voting in Assam, when his constituency is scheduled to go to the vote.

Basumatary had reportedly been missing for two days and around midnight on Wednesday, BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted that he had met with the BPF candidate, who would join the saffron party.

BPF is an ally of the Opposition Congress in Assam, where two of the three polls scheduled in phases ended on Thursday.

“The official candidate of BPF and the so-called alliance led by the Congress of the Tamulpur Assembly constituency, Sri Ram Das Basumatary met me recently. He has expressed his desire to join @ BJP4India and retire
of the elections, “Sarma tweeted.

Rangja Khungur Basumatary is also known as Ram Das Basumatary.

Basumatary told a local television channel that he had decided to resign from BPF because the party did not help him during the campaign.

Efforts to contact him failed because his phone was turned off. A congressional statement confirmed that Basumatary joined the BJP on Thursday.

The Tamulpur constituency is located in the Baksa district under the Bodoland Territorial Region and will go to the polls during the third phase on April 6.

Reacting to the development, Congressional MP Manish Tiwari said that Basumatary had disappeared due to threats from the BJPN and lashed out at the saffron party for it.

“Never in India were such immoral activities carried out during the elections; you (BJP) threatened to use the National Investigation Agency against the party and the candidate. You (BJP) want to win the elections by wrong means. This is a Fascist mentality and it is the education of the BJP. That party does not believe in democracy and democratic systems. This is absolutely the worst spectacle of fascism exhibited in the Assam polls, “he told a news conference in Guwahati.

Tiwari demanded that the BJP government in the state tell people what had happened to Basumatary for two days.

“I demand a detailed investigation into the incident by the Electoral Commission. How did such an incident occur in front of the EC? Is the EC blindfolded?” said the leader of Congress.

AICC spokesman Gourav Vallabh said a congressional delegation will meet with the EC on Thursday night to seek the postponement of the vote in the Tamulpur constituency and the disqualification of Sarma, a high-ranking minister from Assam, to challenge and campaign for state elections as he is a “repeat offender” of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).

Vallabh questioned why the EC was not checking Basumatary’s call records to find his whereabouts.

“We demand that Basumatary’s call records be made public so that the people of Assam know what coercion, intimidation or what proposal forced him to join the BJP,” Vallabh said.

Commenting on the EC’s notification to Sarma for allegedly threatening BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary with using the NIA against him, Tiwari said that “the EC issued the notification because it is convinced that such threatening language is not acceptable. “.

“The EC prima facie found him guilty. It is a conspiracy against the candidate. It is an attempt to subvert the electoral process. They (BJP) do not believe in democracy and that is why they are resorting to that practice of threatening a candidate who is in the electoral contest, ”he said.

Sarma had said that it had obtained evidence of Mohilary’s alleged links to recent gun recoveries in the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) and the case was being turned over to the NIA for investigation.

Later, the director general of the state police, Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, reportedly said that there was evidence that militants and their group were involved in recovering weapons.

“We asked the Gujarati Mom (referring to Sarma’s loyalty to BJP and popularly called ‘Mom’) When did that evidence arrive? If it happened before the MCC went into effect, why was it silent? It means that he was committing a crime. If it came after the MCC entered
force, then how and who gave him the evidence because the police now inform the Electoral Commission. Yesterday the DGP said that it has all the information. Is it a coincidence or is it deliberate? DGP sir why
Are you not taking any action? Who has tied your hands? By making such statements, you are not strengthening democracy, but weakening it, “added Vallabh.