Opening of ‘polling material room’ in Kozhikode kicks up a row

The opening of 1 of the rooms astatine JDT Islam Complex astatine Vellimadukunnu successful Kozhikode city, wherever electoral voting machines (EVM) utilized for the precocious concluded Assembly elections are kept, kicked up a contention connected Monday.

The EVMs from six Assembly segments successful the territory are kept astatine the JDT complex. While the United Democratic Front (UDF) claimed that 1 of the strongrooms lodging EVMs had been opened successful an “unauthorised manner,” officials rejected the complaint and said the room, which contained lone predetermination materials, was opened with the cognition of agents of governmental parties to cod information for updating the canvass software.