Congress, UDF to move High Court against Perambra, Koyilandy returning officers

The Congress and the United Democratic Front (UDF) are readying to question ineligible enactment against the returning officers of Perambra and Koyilandy Assembly constituencies successful Kozhikode territory for what they termed arsenic the “unauthorised opening” of polling worldly rooms astatine JDT Islam Education Complex successful Kozhikode metropolis recently.

K. Praveenkumar, District Congress Committee (DCC) president, told the media connected Thursday that adjacent though the UDF had sought enactment against the 2 officials, thing had been done truthful far. The Congress person alleged that it was a lapse connected the portion of the District Collector, who is besides the District Election Officer, to person acceptable up the polling materials country adjacent to the beardown country wherever physics voting machines (EVM) are kept. Mr. Praveenkumar said that the Chief Electoral Officer had issued a absorption not to unfastened immoderate country successful places wherever EVMs are kept pursuing the contention implicit the alleged opening of the polling worldly country by the returning serviceman for Perambra. Despite this order, the returning serviceman for Koyilandy had reached the premises, Mr. Praveenkumar claimed.