A Congress party delegation comprising Party’s State General Secretary Ramesh Varlyani, formed Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak and Amit Shrivastava on Monday met Chief Electoral Officer Subrat Sahoo and complained to him about the officials conducting voter’s awareness in Surguja region while reportedly taking polls surveys in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
The delegation members complained that some of the officials carried out poll survey in the villages of Jajga, Khondhala and Kharsura in Udaipur block of Ambikapur assembly constituency.
The officials during the voter awareness drive are asking the villages to press their preferred electoral party symbol and are thus conducting a kind of survey, they said. This process is disrupting the transparent electoral process , they said.
It is also learnt that some of the officials in Ambikapur and Koria districts are also taking with them the voting machines at their residences. They had kept the machines for a week in their residences thus violating the instructions of the Election Commission, the leaders said.
All these incidents smell of a conspiracy against our leader T.S. Singhdeo and it is demanded that such machines should be kept aside and should not be used in the election process, the leaders further demanded