Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday complained to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) that there have been serious lapses to the security of EVMs and electoral processes in South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency.

There have been “recreating and re-sealing of the polling diaries, manipulating relevant information contained in them, the objective of which is not known” a complaint submitted by AAP south Delhi candidate Raghav Chadha to the CEC said.

These diaries are used to note hourly activity at a booth on the polling day. “Have learnt through reliable sources that EC has summoned presiding officers of South Delhi Parliamentary Constituency’s polling stations to re-create and re-sign EVM related documents. This is shocking. What is going on? Why are docs being recreated? Are EVMs being replaced too? [sic]” Mr. Chadha had tweeted on Friday.

On Friday, AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj had alleged that about 200-250 Presiding Officers had been called to the EC office in the past two days and asked to “change sensitive information in the polling diaries”. Denying the allegations, South Delhi Returning Officer Nidhi Srivastav said the EC had not called any officials from the constituency.

The complaint to the CEC also mentioned other issues. “Even more shockingly it was noticed that on May 17, 2019, between 4.23 p.m. to 4.39 p.m., it was noticed that the seal of room no. 007 was broken without any information to the candidate or political party or any of its authorised representative, yet again bypassing the mandatory provisions,” it read.

The complaint states that the sanctity of the electoral process has been repeatedly undermined by bypassing mandatory provisions in South Delhi parliamentary constituency and urged the CEC to “urgently address” different complaints raised by AAP.