Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 24: Prof Bhim Singh, Panthers Party candidate from Udhampur Parliamentary seat has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to order re-polling in the constituency.
Prof Singh had 30-minute meeting with V S Sampath, at Nirvachan Sadan, New Delhi this morning during which he submitted a petition to the CEC urging re-poll in the entire Parliamentary Constituency for the reasons that the poll held on April 17 was vitiated with rigging, fraud and EVM manipulation by the Congress and BJP candidates supported and abetted by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Bhim Singh informed the CEC that Gulabgarh Assembly segment recorded 82 percent of poll which was a total fraud as almost all the male members had migrated to Punjab and Himachal Pradesh as they usually do in the month of April and May to seek work in the adjoining States. He also presented press clippings of local and national newspapers which have published stories on the rigging. He informed the CEC that almost all the EVMs of 38 polling stations in Marwah Dachchan (Gulabgarh) were snatched by the local police officers and carried in helicopters which reached the office of Returning Officer after four days. The EVMs were allegedly taken away by the police leaving polling officers behind.
Prof Bhim Singh said that same thing happened with the EVMs which were used in Gulabgarh for recording votes. Some of the EVMs were taken to Rajouri district and then brought to Kathua after four days.
He urged the CEC that rigging could be checked to some extent if the voters identity cards issued by the CEC are retained by the Presiding Officer at the polling station till the counting is over. He informed CEC that hundreds of dead persons in the hills of Gulabgarh, Marwah Dachchan, Padar, Bani and Banihal have cast their votes which should be verified from the record in the interest of democracy and rule of law.
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