The Election Commission (EC) has annulled all the votes cast at a booth in the Anand Lok Sabha constituency of Gujarat last month and ordered fresh polling on 12 May, an official said on Thursday, 9 May.
The EC move came in the wake of report of bogus polling at the booth submitted by officials.
According to Anand district collector Dilip Rana, the EC has taken the decision following his report about bogus polling on the booth on 23 April, when all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat went to the polls.
“At the time of polling on 23 April, an incident of bogus voting was detected by us. We have found out that one person gave vote four to five times on that booth. Based on our report, the EC has decided to cancel all the votes polled in that booth and announced re-polling,”Dilip Rana, Anand district collector and district returning officer
A release issued by Gujarat Chief Electoral Officer S Murali Krishna here said re-polling will be held on a booth, officially named ‘239-Dharmaj-8’, on 12 May as the EC has cancelled the polling held there on 23 April. The booth is located in Dharmaj village of Anand district, around 75 km from Ahmedabad.
Fresh polling for the voters of the booth will be held between 7 am and 6 pm, the release said.
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