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| SEC admits difference in votes actually polled; those found in ballot boxes : Harsh | | “Declare DDC elections of District Udhampur null and void” | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 28: “Having failed to receive any response from the State Election Commission with regard to the complaints of mass rigging, manipulations, abuse of govt machinery etc by the ruling party during the last year’s DDC polls, the NPP had filed an RTI application wherein certain startling facts have come to fore.
While the complaints lodged by the NPP had been disregarded by the ‘election watchdog’ of the UT of J&K, the reply to RTI application has admitted that there was incongruity in District Udhampur in the number of votes polled on the day of polling and the votes actually found in the ballot boxes in 12 out of the 14 DDC constituencies of the said District.
And while there was no difference between the votes polled and votes found in ballot boxes in all other districts as per the reply of SEC, it was District Udhampur alone where such discrepancies had been noticed.
Pertinent to mention that during and after elections, the NPP had raised numerous protests against the Election authorities and District administration for favouring the ruling party besides having facilitated the process of rigging”. This was stated by Harsh Dev Singh chairman-JKNPP and former Minister. He was addressing a press conference in Jammu today.
Singh displayed the 170 page copy of RTI reply by SEC with several other sensational disclosures with regard to conduct of DDC polls in J&K. He revealed that the decision of mixing of votes of various polling stations was taken on 16-12-2021 after the polling process had concluded in majority of the DDC constituencies as revealed in the said reply.
He said that the SEC had admitted that no concurrence or consultation was held with the recognized political parties on the subject and the said decision was taken by SEC by overlooking the past precedents and by changing the prevalent practices and norms unilaterally. The reply has further admitted that a meeting was held by DC Udhampur on 21-12-2020, a day before counting of votes with all Candidates/Election agents of various political parties except those of Panthers Party. The reply has further revealed that the District administration Udhampur had even failed to respond to the complaints and other representations of Panthers Party made during the course of elections. With regard to query raised in the RTI application regarding roofless rooms used for storing ballot boxes, the reply has admitted that the storage of all ballot boxes of various DDC constituencies of District Udhampur was done in several wooden compartments of a multipurpose Hall except those of Chenani, said Singh.
Calling upon the Election Commission to declare the DDC elections of District Udhampur as null and void in view of disclosures made in RTI reply, Singh said that party would launch massive public awareness campaign against the brazen subversion of democracy and blatant bulldozing of constitutional guarantees in J&K especially in District Udhampur. He sought strict action against SEC and District Udhampur authorities who facilitated the process of subversion of democracy.
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