ES Reporter

ITANAGAR, May 11: Hundreds of voters from 38-Rakso polling station under 18-Palin Assembly Constituency staged a dharna in front of Nirvachan Bhawan demanding immediate re-poll in the said polling station.
Holding placards and banners, voters under the umbrella of ‘Deprived Voters of Rakso Polling Station’ served a seven-day ultimatum to the election authorities to declare fresh poll in 38-Rakso polling station.
Speaking to reporters, Chairman of the forum, Biri Nainia said that after  disturbing the democratic process on  the poll day of April 11 last , the  supporters of  Janata Dal-United  candidate  again  disrupted the  April 27 re-poll  by preventing genuine voters of the said polling station from exercising their franchises.  “ As per record,  more than 160  voters were  restricted to enter the polling booth  and cast vote on the re-polling day of  April 27, with administration and police standing as mute spectators, ” claimed  Nainia.
Further, he also  informed that the deprived voters in a joint memorandum submitted to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)  has demanded disqualification of the JD-U candidate and re-poll within seven days under vigilance of the Chief Observer.  
While clarifying on the allegation of postal votes, Nainia categorically refuted the allegation of JD-U candidate terming it false and baseless. “Most of the voters are villagers and as they stay in the concerned villages, the necessity of postal ballots to cast vote does not arise,” added the chairman of the forum.
A Gaon Burah who was also attending the dharna informed that even he, despite being the  GB was not allowed to  vote . ‘The JD (U) workers used catapults, stones and sophisticated weapons to disrupt the voting process on the day and when we informed about the happenings to the security personnel, they did not take any action against them,” the GB added.

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