RS poll: EC meet on Cong plaint over; party says poll body 'under pressure'
August 08, 2017  19:44
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JUST IN: A meet of the Election Commission over Gujarat Congress complaint seeking rejection of votes of two party MLAs in Rajya Sabha polls, who allegedly shown their votes publicly, has just concluded.

EC's decision will come today.

Bharatiya Janata Party delegation including Union ministers Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nirmala Sitharaman reached the Election Commission.

The BJP delegation also included Union ministers M A Naqvi, Piyush Goyal and Dharmendra Pradhan.

Congress leaders including Anand Sharma and Randeep Surjewala also went to the EC again.

Meanwhile, Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia said 'we had raised objection at 9.30 am, but the EC has not responded till now. It shows that they are being put under pressure'.

"We requested that Congress, BJP and Presiding officer should jointly watch the video, but the BJP objected. Waiting for EC's decision," Modhwadia said.

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "The Congress has been leveling baseless allegations, they did not protest about it in the morning."

Prasad 'requested the EC to reject Congress's plea as once votes are cast then nothing can be done'.     -- ANI

IMAGE: Congress leader Ahemd Patel. Photograph: ANI
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