On the complaint of Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Gurgaon, Yogendra Yadav, the Election Commission of India on Tuesday ordered re-poll in eight polling stations in four Assembly segments of the constituency on May 15.
Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana Shrikant Walgad, said polling stations, where re-poll has been scheduled on May 15 are in the Mewat area of the Gurgaon Parliamentary constituency.
In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath, Yadav had mentioned that a village in Mewat, which reported a high turnout, didn't have a proportionate number of people with their finger inked and villagers admitting to a pre-poll “consensus” on who they would vote for.
On the basis of a scientific analysis of the polling station-wise turnout data, he had submitted to the CEC, added that there was a cluster of booths that recorded abnormally high turnout, upwards of 90 per cent or even 95 per cent, that these were concentrated in the areas where we had complained about rigging and that the dispersion of turnout did not follow normal statistical pattern in the three segments (Nuh, Firozpur-Zhirka
and Punhana) of the constituency.
Yadav had demanded for a re-poll in 110 booths across the constituency. He had also given details of the nature of irregularities in 110 polling stations and provided audio-visual evidence to back up their claims.
Now, the polling stations, where re-polling would be held on May 15 are in the Nuh, Firozpur-Zhirka and Punhana areas. Walgad added that the re-poll would be held from 7 am to 6 pm.