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No mismatch found in VVPAT slips and votes polled in Maharashtra polls: EC | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday claimed that, in a mandatory count, there was no mismatch found in the Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) slips and the votes polled in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the recently concluded Maharashtra assembly elections.The commission said as per the guidelines it is required to count VVPAT slips of randomly selected five polling stations across each assembly segment of a state. The poll body, accordingly, counted the slips on November 23 (during the result day) in the presence of the counting observer and representatives of candidates."As per that, slip count of 1440 VVPAT units from 288 assembly constituencies of Maharashtra state has been tallied with respective control unit data. There is no discrepancy f...

Maharashtra: Opposition Aghadi MLAs Take Oath A Day After Boycotting Ceremony Over EVM ‘Misuse’

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Maharashtra: Opposition Aghadi MLAs Take Oath A Day After Boycotting Ceremony Over EVM ‘Misuse’

Maharashtra Govt Formation: Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) MLAs took oath in the Maharashtra Assembly on Sunday, a day after boycotting the ceremony alleging misuse of EVMs in the recently-held state elections. Sunday was the second day of the special three-day session of the assembly. Congress's Nana Patole, Vijay Wadettiwar and Amit Deshmukh, NCP (SP) leader Jitendra Awhad, Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Aaditya Thackeray and Rohit Pawar were some of the prominent opposition MLAs who took oath as soon as the House reassembled for the day. The opposition had earlier cited that it was also protesting against the curfew and arrests in Markadwadi village in the Malshiras assembly constituency in Solapur, where villagers sought a 'repoll' using ballot papers. Only 173 MLAs took oath on Saturday.Sama...

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‘Insulted voters’: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis on opposition MLAs refusing to take oath – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday condemned the opposition parties' decision to boycott the oath-taking ceremony during the first day of the Maharashtra assembly's special session. Fadnavis accused the elected members of the opposition of insulting the voters who had chosen them by refusing to take their oaths as MLAs."The voters have voted for these members of the opposition to represent them in the assembly. By refusing to take oath as the members of legislative assembly, these elected representatives have insulted the voters across the state who have voted for them," Fadnavis told reporters.The boycott was led by the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, which includes prominent opposition parties like Shiv Sena (UBT) and the NCP led by Sharad Pawar.The leaders o...