3 panchayat poll resultsrevised after recounting

Gorakhpur: After supporters of two district panchayat member election candidates staged massive protests and set afire a police post alleging anomalies in counting, Gorakhpur district magistrate supervised booth-wise matching of votes and declared revised results and also ordered action against the returning officer.
On Wednesday afternoon, two candidates, Ravi Nishad from district panchayat ward number 60 and Kodai Nishad from ward number 61 had claimed they had won the election with over 2,000 votes but the certificate of victory was given to Gopal Yadav for ward number 60 and Ramesh aka Gabbar Yadav for ward number 61.
The candidates and their supporters alleged anomalies and staged protests that went on till late evening.
The recounting started at around 11pm on Wednesday under the supervision of DM K. Vijayendra Pandian during which difference of 2,000 votes was detected.
In revised results after recounting, the DM declared Ravi Nishad as winner from ward number 60 and Kodai Nishad from ward number 61. The DM handed them certificates of victory on Thursday morning.
In another case of result correction, Devsharan was declared winner from ward number 45 after probe found that the returning officer had sent correct report declaring him as the winner, but there had been a clerical mistake at district headquarters.
There were complaints from ward number 21 and 32, but the results were found correct.
Speaking to reporters, the DM said, “There were complaints of errors in counting in district panchayat ward numbers 21, 32, 45, 60 and 61. After booth-wise matching of votes, the results of ward number 21 and 32 were found correct and clerical mistake was found in the result of ward number 45.”
“An FIR has been lodged against the returning officer Virendra Kumar, who is executive engineer in irrigation department and a letter for action against him would be written to Election Commission,” he added.