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Mumbai: India’s election panel has rejected a complaint by Congress, the largest opposition party, regarding vote counting in recent state elections that dashed its expectations, warning that the “frivolous” doubts expressed could provoke turbulence. The Election Commission dismissed the party’s concerns about the functioning of electronic voting machines as completely unfounded and criticised it for questioning the process. “Such frivolous and unfounded doubts have the potential of creating turbulence,” it said in a statement on Tuesday. Show Full Article A spokesman for the Congress party did not immediately comment on the matter.The Congress, which has ruled India for 54 of the 77 years since independence from Britain, is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bigg...