NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday demanded a thorough probe into “discrepancies” found in some Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the counting of votes in the Haryana assembly polls and demanded that such EVMs should be sealed and secured pending the inquiry.A delegation of top Congress leaders comprising former chief ministers Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Ashok Gehlot and AICC leaders KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Ajay Maken and Pawan Khera, besides Haryana Congress chief Udai Bhan, met with top Election Commission officials.The delegation handed over a memorandum to the officials along with specific complaints from various constituencies in Haryana.Senior party leader Abhishek Singhvi joined the meeting online.The Congress leaders alleged that there are at least 20 such complaints, including seven in writing, from as many assembly constituencies, with many referring to EVMs functioning at 99 percent battery capacity whereas the average EVMs were found to be operating at 60 to 70 percent battery capacity during counting.The party has alleged “glaring discrepancies” related to some EVMs in the Haryana polls and urged the EC to conduct a probe.”There are doubts about vote counting as Haryana results are surprising. Everyone believed that the Congress would form the next government in Haryana. When the counting of postal ballots took place, the Congress was winning, but when the counting of EVMs started, the opposite happened,” former chief minister Hooda told reporters after the meeting.He said the Congress will submit more complaints to the EC in the next few days. “The EC has assured us of looking into the matter,” Hooda said after meeting the CEC and other election commissioners.Bhan also said that doubts have been created about the veracity of the counting exercise in Haryana and they should be cleared by the EC.
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