Congress seeks counting of postal ballot first before the EVM votes, writes to ECI

April 8: In a latest development, Assam Pradesh Congress Congress Committee (APCC) has raised the demand that the Postal Ballots should be counted first on 2 May before counting the EVM votes. A letter to this effect was also sent to the Election Commissioner of India (ECI) by APCC President Ripun Bora wherein he expressed deep anxiety citing the incident which occured in Bihar recently when the postal ballots were counted at the end.

In the said letter, the Congress wrote, “In the last Bihar Assembly Election, the postal ballot votes were counted at late night after the EVM votes. For this many discrepancies and complaints were raised during the counting of ballots by many contesting candidates and it was viral on social media. As a result, many candidates lost in a narrow margin of votes and pointed fingers against the Election Commission… Therefore, we appeal to your honour to take necessary and proper steps to count the postal ballot votes before the EVM votes so that the votes counting of Assam Assembly Election might be clean and clear.”