Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

Election Commission on Monday appointed Ashok Kumar Garg as the new Returning Officer of Faridabad parliamentary constituency ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

The Election Commission today announced that repolling will be held in polling station 88 of Faridabad parliamentary constituency in the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 19. The election commission found out from a complaint of a violation of secrecy to be true and hence repolling will be held.

The DEO of Faridabad reported that a polling agent was arrested yesterday, during this phase of the Lok Sabha elections and an FIR was lodged against him.

DEO said that the man was trying to effect at least three women voters. The observer visited the booth at Asawati in Prithla constituency of 10, Faridabad PC. He said that he is satisfied that the voting never vitiated.

Polling agent in Faridabad was arrested after he was observed allegedly influencing the voters. The action was taken against the polling official after the video was brought to the notice of Haryana’s election committee on Twitter.

The video that got viral on Twitter showed a man in blue t-shirt sitting at his table inside a polling booth at Asaoti in Faridabad Lok Sabha seats Prithla. The man walks up to the voting compartment as a woman prepare herself to cast her vote and so he appears to press the button on the voting machine before returning to the seats and repeat the action with two other women in the polling booth. In the room, No other polling official tried to stop the man from going to the voting compartment which is not allowed.

Ashok Lavasa the Election Commissioner said that the “scrutiny of this polling station will be comprehensive.”

In Faridabad Union Minister Krishan Pal Gurjar is seeking election on the ticket of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Avtar Singh Bhadana is the candidate of Congress and Pandit Naveen Jaihind is the candidate from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

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