Ten booths in Tamil Nadu have been recommended for re-polling by the Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sathabrata Sahoo, including eight from Dharmapuri and one each from Cuddalore and Tiruvallur Parliamentary constituencies.
Both Parliamentary elections and bye-polls will be conducted once again in these ten polling booths, The News Minute reported.
The recommendation was made after DMK candidate S Senthilkumar from Dharmapuri complained.
Reports and videos of PMK functionaries capturing polling booths in Dharmapuri constituency went viral on social media on the day of elections. It also prompted action from the Election Commission.
Senthilkumar, in his petition, had said that the DMK suspected that such an issue would arise during polling following PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss's speech on 5 April, The News Minute reported.
The petition said, “Multiple votes were cast by a single person with the help of officials at the insistence of PMK booth agents; non-PMK voters were not allowed to cast their votes; PMK booth agents totally captured the booths; CCTV cameras were not covering the polling; and unidentified persons belonging to PMK were allowed to cast multiple votes without any verification as to their valid IDs.”
(With inputs from The News Minute)
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