2024-06-18 02:50:03
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday questioned if doubts had been being raised over the reliability of EVMs within the Mumbai North West Lok Sabha seat solely as a result of the winner was from his celebration Shiv Sena. Eknath Shinde mentioned this in response to a query about experiences of a cell phone being related to EVMs throughout vote relying on June 4 by a relative of Shiv Sena’s Ravindra Waikar, who defeated Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Amol Kirtikar by simply 48 votes. Shinde requested why questions had been being raised solely on the results of the Mumbai North West Lok Sabha seat? Why not on another end in Maharashtra? Is it as a result of my candidate Waikar gained and their candidate misplaced?
Mandate in favour of Waikar
In accordance with guidelines, use of cellphones is prohibited at counting centres. Shinde mentioned the mandate is in Waikar’s favour. The chief minister additionally tried to match his celebration’s efficiency with that of rival Shiv Sena (UBT). He mentioned his celebration contested 15 seats and gained seven, with a strike price of 48 per cent. He mentioned Shiv Sena (UBT) contested 21 seats and gained 9, with a strike price of 42 per cent.
EVM is an impartial system
Shinde claimed that his celebration secured two lakh extra votes in Mumbai than candidates of opposition bloc Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), of which Shiv Sena (UBT) can also be a component. In the meantime, Mumbai North West Lok Sabha constituency’s Returning Officer Vandana Suryavanshi refuted the report, saying EVMs are an impartial system with robust administrative safeguards to stop any sort of manipulation and there’s no want for a One Time Password (OTP) to unlock it.
Discover issued for spreading false information
“It isn’t programmable and doesn’t have wi-fi communication functionality. This can be a lie being unfold by a newspaper. We now have issued a discover to Mid-Day newspaper underneath sections 499, 505 of the Indian Penal Code for defamation and spreading false information,” Suryavanshi mentioned at a press convention on Sunday.
Police registered a case
A police official mentioned on Saturday {that a} case was registered on Wednesday towards Waikar’s relative Mangesh Pandilkar for utilizing a cell phone on the counting centre on the day the final election outcomes had been introduced on June 4. At a press convention, Suryavanshi mentioned that the private cell phone of Dinesh Gurav, an information entry operator of Jogeshwari meeting constituency, was discovered with an unauthorised individual and motion is being taken on this regard.