IMPHAL: Janata Dal (U), which has fielded its biggest contingent of candidates in
Manipur assembly elections
, has rushed five of its MPs to Imphal to “keep vigil” on the process of counting of votes on Thursday.
The party’s general secretary and in-charge of northeast Afaque Ahmad Khan in a statement said that If the party gets any complaints from its candidates about any foul play during counting, the MPs will sit-in dharna in front of respective counting centres.
Khan in his statement added that the party has written to EC to “direct the District
Election Officers
, RO/ AROs to strictly ensure that complete videography is done in counting centres by CCTV, counting of postal ballots are done before the counting of EVM votes, new round of counting be taken up only after the announcement of each round of counting and adequate security be provided to the counting agents.”
Every non-BJP party which has participated in the two-phase elections in the state are wary of last-minute manoeuvres by the saffron party carried out in 2017 to form its government in the state despite finishing as the second-largest party.
Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is curren...
Read MorePrabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.
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