Haryana election result: Congress submits seven written complains regarding EVMs to EC

The Congress on Wednesday urged the Election Commission to match the VVPAT copies with the vote tally done from EVMs in the Haryana elections. This comes after the party on Tuesday alleged EVM tampering and refused to accept the election result.

The EC has assured the Congress to look into the 20 complaints, out of which seven are written, alleging EVM tampering. The Congress said that machines which were charged at 99%, where the BJP won and other normal machines were at 60-70%, where the Congress won.



"The Election Commission has assured us that they will look into this matter and they will reply to us after consulting their returning officers from each constituency. Complaints were from 20 Assembly constituencies. We have presented the documents of the complaints to ECI. Complaints from 13 more Assembly constituencies will be submitted to ECI in the next 48 hours," Congress leader Pawan Khera said.


"Today, KC Venugopal, Ashok Gehlot, Jairam Ramesh, Ajay Maken, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and other party leaders met the officials of ECI. We told ECI about the 20 complaints of which 7 are in written complaints from 7 constituencies. There were machines which were at 99% and other normal machines were at 60-70% on the day of counting. We demanded that those machines should be sealed and secured until the investigation is complete. We also told ECI that in the next 48 hours, we will also present the remaining complaints to them," Khera added.

Haryana election result

Congress lost the Haryana elections, results for which were announced on Tuesday. The party won 37 of the 90 assembly seats, while BJP won a majority by fighting anti-incumbency and secured historic third term in the state with 48 seats.

Congress, however, rejected the election mandate, claiming that the EVMs were tampered with. This marks the first instance of a major political party in India refusing to accept the election results on such grounds.