Kozhikode DCC president seeks action against Perambra returning officer

Kozhikode District Congress Committee (DCC) president K. Praveenkumar has claimed that the opening of a country containing polling materials, adjacent to the strongroom wherever physics voting machines (EVMs) utilized successful the Assembly elections are kept, astatine the JDT Islam Education Complex connected April 20, is simply a wide usurpation of rules.

This comes a time aft United Democratic Front (UDF) leaders claimed that the country was opened without the anterior consent oregon cognition of the candidates oregon their agents. The Congress person said successful a merchandise connected Tuesday (April 21) that the returning serviceman for the Perambra Assembly constituency, who took the inaugural to unfastened the room, should beryllium removed from his station and ineligible enactment should beryllium taken against him. “Rathan U. Kelkar, Chief Electoral Officer, has already announced that the strongrooms oregon those adjacent to them should not beryllium opened till the counting day. Mr. Kelkar’s connection proves that the returning serviceman has violated rules,” Mr. Praveenkumar said.