Imphal: The People Democratic Front (PDF) on Tuesday welcomed ‘any political party’ to join in the event of the front forming the next government in Manipur whose polls held recently.
PDF is a front formed by many political parties.
“We do not mind any party tying up with the PDF as the four-political party alliance may not obtain absolute majority though it would become the single largest alliance to win in the recent Manipur polls, Manipur Pradesh NCP president and Opposition leader Radhabinod Koijam said in a press conference at the party’s office in Thangmeiband here.
Radhabinod was speaking to reporters in connection with electors’ photograph comparisons whose finding has already been submitted to the Election Commission of India (ECI).
He added, the election commission and the State Chief Election Officer (CEO) have been urged by NCP that further re-poll was not necessary where photographs of voters were not corresponding to another in the process of comparisons, but instead he demanded those votes should be invalidated.
The NCP president added, expenditure of candidates should also be reviewed in case re-poll is needed in the rigged-booths.
Radhabinod added that thousands of photos were found mismatched in respect of Saikul constituency and the more surprising was that photograph of a candidate from the constituency was turned out to be a photograph of a Nepalese.
The Opposition leader added, around 2500 electors were subjected to proxy voting in Wabagai constituency of Thoubal district under which 13 polling stations were rigged by mismanaging photographs.
Meanwhile, BJP Manipur Pradesh acting president professor S. Tiken told the media here that the recent crucial Manipur polls were not conducted in a free and fair manner, saying mass proxy voting was committed during the polling due to “inadequate security arrangements.”
Tiken added, the finding of the two days of photo comparisons has come up with a lot of proxy voters and the decision of the ECI is awaited by the people and said rigged-votes should be invalidated and that they should not be included in the counting of votes slated for March 6.
“BJP Central leaders, including some leaders from Manipur recently met with the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India and submitted a letter to him regarding illegal voting in the State,” Tiken informed.
It has become certain that there are a number of malpractices such as proxy voting, impersonation, mass rigging, booth capturing, etc. were committed during the January 28 polls based on the result found out by the Central observers in crossed checking of voters’ photo captured on the poll day with that of electoral roll, the BJP stated in the letter.
It also requested the CEC to look into the matter and issue an order to take up the counting of vote on the basis of genuineness of the votes found in the crossed-checking and declare the other rigged-votes as invalid. (NNN)
