After the exit polls, the National General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party, Prof. The effect of Ram Gopal Yadav's response was visible on Tuesday. Samajwadi Party candidates and workers created ruckus at various places over the handling of EVMs. There was a lot of ruckus in Varanasi. In Meerut, the photo of the SP candidate of Hastinapur keeping an eye on the strong room with binoculars went viral.
On Monday Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav had instructed the candidates and workers to conduct careful counting of votes and especially in the counting of postal ballots, by describing the exit polls as 'monitored'. By tweeting on Tuesday, SP President Akhilesh Yadav also said that the workers should be ready with cameras.
After voting in Varanasi, till late Monday night, all 3317 EVMs were kept assembly-wise in the strong room at Pahariya. Here the counting of votes is to be held on March 10. The EVMs going from Pahariya Mandi to UP College for training were stopped by the SP workers on the spot and created a ruckus. The driver and a worker were kept in his possession for hours and raised slogans against the police administration. During this, Additional Director General of Police Zone Ram Kumar, who reached the spot, and the police vehicle were also vandalized. The SP workers also raised their voices against the BJP, alleging EVM rigging.
The SP workers did not even spare the media in anger. The SPs also called the media good and bad about the exit polls. And also broke the camera of a TV channel. Along with this, some activists also created ruckus at four places in the city. Shortly after the incident, District Election Officer Kaushal Raj Sharma and Police Commissioner A Satish Ganesh also reached the spot. The SPs raised slogans against these officers fiercely. The officers tried a lot to explain but things did not work out. Told to show even CCTV footage. Former SP minister Surendra Singh Patel was even made to inspect the strong room, but the people of SP were not ready to listen to anything. The SP did not allow them to come out of the market. Had to come back from the vehicle again and sit in the strong room. Seeing the commotion, a huge force has gathered here.
Apart from Varanasi, the SPs also created a ruckus in other districts. A vehicle going to the strong room located at Government Polytechnic College in Sonbhadra was caught by SP workers on Tuesday afternoon. It was alleged that there was a ballot paper in it. The ballot paper which should not have been with the EVM was being sent there. In Bareilly, SP leaders stopped the vehicle of the Municipal Corporation going inside the counting place with locked boxes. On Tuesday, the SPs sitting under the surveillance of EVMs kept at the counting site in the FCI godown in Unnao saw a hammer, screwdriver in an officer's car. There was an uproar over this for a long time. After this, the matter was settled after telling him the vehicle tool kit.
On the other hand, Rakesh Tikait, the national spokesperson of BKU in Baghpat, took a jibe at the BJP and said that the public did not vote for them, but they are claiming victory. In Baghpat, RLD district president Jagpal Singh Teotia, referring to the BJP's lead in the exit polls, expressed apprehension that the election results could be changed by messing up the counting of votes. SP alliance candidate Yogesh Verma reached Hastinapur outside the strong room in Meerut and saw the arrangement through binoculars. The picture of the strong room with binoculars became increasingly viral in the internet media.
Rumors spread by saying EVMs: Varanasi District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said that the reserve EVMs were being taken to UP College for training from storage in a separate godown in Mandi. Rumors were spread by calling it EVM used in elections. Wednesday is the second training of the employees engaged in counting duty and this machine is always used in training for hands-on training.
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