EC orders repolling in one booth for EVM malfunctioning

Lucknow, Apr 19 (UNI) Election Commission has ordered repolling in one booth of Nagina assembly seat in Bijnore district tomorrow where polling was held yesterday.

State chief electoral officer(CEO) Anuj Kumar Bishnoi said here today that repolling will be held on booth No-118 in Nagina seat following malfunctioning of the Electronic Voting Machines(EVM) during the polling.

The repolling will be held tomorrow from 0700hrs to 1700 hrs.

With one repolling for Phase III polling, now repolling have been ordered for three booths so far by the EC in the last three phases.

While no repolling was ordered in the first phase, in second phase repolling was ordered in two booths.

Meanwhile, Mr Bishnoi said EC has not given any orders regarding any repoll following the controversy in Kayamganj assembly seat where Congress candidate Louise Khurshid and her husband Salman Khurshid could not vote yesterday as their names were missing from the voter list.

He said Farrukhabad district authorities have informed him that a FIR is being registered against the printer of the voters list due to whose negligence the names of the Congress leaders were missing from the electoral rolls.

UNI