Uttar Pradesh: SP staff protest in Azamgarh, Moradabad claiming restoration of clean poll papers

By PTI

MORADABAD: Samajwadi Party staff staged protests in Azamgarh and Moradabad on Wednesday claiming restoration of clean poll papers from a car whereas alleging wrongdoing on the a part of the official equipment.

In a tweet from its official Twitter account, the SP claimed that the automobile carrying 10,000 plain poll papers was making an attempt to enter a robust room in Azamgarh after switching off its headlights.

“The vehicle from Varanasi was stopped by alert SP workers at the gate. At whose behest were the ballot papers being taken? What was the purpose? EC please clarify,” the SP stated in a tweet and in addition shared a video of the car and get together staff staging protest.

On the instructions of SP president Akhilesh Yadav, a celebration delegation led by state unit president Naresh Uttam Patel and nationwide secretary Rajendra Chaudhari met Election Commission (EC) officers in Lucknow in reference to the restoration of poll papers.

The delegation, which submitted a written criticism, additionally forwarded a replica to the Chief Election Commissioner.

However, District Election Officer of Azamgarh Amrit Tripath clarified that the car belonged to the block growth officer (BDO) and the recovered poll papers have been unused postal ballots which needed to be submitted together with the poll papers.

By mistake the BDO didn’t submit it, he stated, including that it was nothing however stationery.

But because of the negligence of the BDO, suggestion for his suspension has been made to the Election Commission and all of the candidates have been knowledgeable about this.

In Moradabad, an enormous ruckus erupted after the Tehsildar was allegedly caught with two poll containers hidden in a car close to the robust room at Mandi Samiti.

Former SP district president of Jaiveer Singh Yadav informed reporters, “Dharmendra, the Tehsildar of Bilari reached the strong room area in a vehicle of Bilari municipality. Ballot boxes were hidden under mattresses kept inside the car.”

“The tehsildar misbehaved with SP agents when they tried to stop him from entering the EVM strong room and he also tried to take the ballot boxes inside,” Singh alleged.

Claiming that over 1,400 clean poll papers have been contained in the containers, SP candidate Faheem alleged that they have been meant to get replaced with postal ballots.

Moradabad DM Shailendra Kumar Singh and SSP Bablu Kumar reached the Mandi Samiti and managed to pacify the protesters.

“They were unused ballots and the boxes were sealed. Though, it was a mistake on the part of the people concerned for trying to transfer the unused ballots to a safer place. The tehsildar has been relieved of his responsibility keeping in view the circumstances,” the DM stated.