Frustrated by the drubbing obtained in first two phases, TMC resorts to EVM capturing forward of the third section

The polling for 31 seats below the third section of the West Bengal Assembly elections is at present underway. However, an evening earlier than the elections, in a sensational flip of occasions, 4 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and 4 Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) have been discovered at TMC chief Gautam Ghosh’s home in Uluberia North constituency. The movies of the incident have since gone viral on social media platforms and TMC’s plan of sabotaging the electoral course of has come to a nought.4 EVMs, VV PAT recovered from a TMC chief, Goutam Ghosh’s home at Uluberia in Howrah district. pic.twitter.com/XcTy1FTMh6— Urvi kar (@kar_urvi) April 6, 2021The incident got here to gentle after a ‘Sector 17’ election responsibility automotive was discovered parked outdoors the TMC chief’s home. According to media experiences, the EVMs and VVPATs have been delivered to the residence of the TMC chief by Tapan Sarkar, a sector officer, in an election responsibility automotive.The sector officer after being caught red-handed by the villagers claimed that he reached the polling sales space late within the night time and by that point, the central forces had slept off. Not being allowed entry inside, the officer claimed to have gone to a relative’s home which conveniently occurred to be Gautam Ghosh — the TMC MLA.Reports recommend that when the villagers discovered in regards to the EVMs, pressure broke down within the space, and the police pressure arriving on the spot needed to resort to lathi-charge to disperse the gang. Reportedly, the 4 EVMs recovered from the positioning have been reserved and have been barred from use.However, the Election Commission (EC) didn’t purchase any of the sector officer’s hogwash and he was instantly suspended. As per the EC sources, disciplinary motion will likely be taken in opposition to the polling officers liable for this lapse.“Tapan Sarkar, sector officer of Sector 17 in AC 177 Uluberia Uttar at Howrah district, went with Reserve EVM and slept at a relative’s house. This is a gross violation of EC’s instructions for which he has been suspended and charges will be framed for major punishment,” the EC mentioned.As reported beforehand by TFI, Mamata Banerjee has not been capable of unleash her TMC goons within the presence of the Central armed forces to rig the polling cubicles and pressure the general public to vote for her occasion. Therefore, Mamata may need issued a diktat to her goons to seize the EVMs and lock within the few measly votes it may need carried. Didi additionally seems to be annoyed by the truth that EC is intently monitoring the elections in Bengal and never letting her play her little methods.Mamata has been seemingly looking for a window to by some means disrupt all the polling course of. On April 1, in the course of the phase-2 polling, Didi went contained in the Boyal ballot sales space in Nandigram and camped there for an excellent hour or two and created a senseless ruckus.Claiming that the central forces weren’t permitting the locals to solid vote, Mamata sitting within the sales space referred to as up the governor of the state and requested him to take cognisance of the difficulty. Importantly sufficient, all the PR stunt was elaborately staged in entrance of the media cameras and Mamata accomplished all the scene in a single take.Read extra: Election Commission destroys Mamata’s allegations about Central forces not permitting individuals to voteHowever, the EC demolished Mamata’s allegations and ensured that each single voter was allowed to vote with none intervention by the BSF jawans.“There is no evidence at all to suggest that the BSF jawans who were deployed at the polling station, indulged in any inappropriate behaviour. Moreover, the complaint that they did not allow the voters to go inside the booth is far from the truth.” mentioned the EC.The TMC chief making an attempt to hijack the EVM’s mustn’t come as a shock to anybody. However, what’s shocking is the stoic silence of the liberal media which unleashed its fury on EC officers in Assam after they have been solely taking a raise from the BJP chief’s cavalcade with out having any prior data after their car broke down. The media has most popular to look the opposite means on this specific incident because the narrative doesn’t swimsuit their agenda.