EVM glitches reported in several areas in Delhi

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

Complaints about malfunctioning poured in from several places of the national capital on Sunday where is underway.

Aam Aadmi Party's Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti alleged that at booths number -- 116,117 and 122 -- were not functioning.

"EVM in booth 132, Hauzrani is showing 50 votes without anyone casting any vote in the machine n at booths 116,117, 122 in Malviya nagar not functioning," Bharti tweeted.

However, there was no immediate reaction from the chief electoral office.

Mudit Agarwal, son of Congress' Chandni Chowk candidate JP Agarwal, alleged malfunctioning of EVMs at some booths in segments.

According to a police official, they received information about an EVM not working at Begum Pur in Rohini but it was rectified.

AAP's Tilak Nagar MLA Jarnail Singh alleged that EVMs at polling booth number 27 were not working in the morning.

"At Prithivi Park polling booth in Tilak Nagar Assembly, EVMs had not been working since 7 am at polling booth - 27. It is the same area where AAP's is considered," Singh said.

He said the claimed that faulty EVMs are changed within ten minutes, but at ground, such claims are telling a different story

Transport Minister said voters were unable to find their votes at polling booths in his Najafgarh constituency.

"Voters unable to find their votes at polling Booths. It is true that on large scale votes have been deleted. All these are resident of I, Najafgarh (sic)," Gahlot tweeted.

Over 1.43 crore people in are eligible to vote in this election which will decide the fate of 164 candidates, of which 18 are women. There are 43 independent candidates.

While 2,54,723 voters are in the age group of 18 and 19, there are 40,532 electorate with disability who would be provided pick up and drop facility.

The counting of votes will take place on May 23.

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First Published: Sun, May 12 2019. 11:21 IST