The Congress today rejected the Haryana election results as “unexpected, unacceptable and a defeat for democracy”. The party will be approaching the Election Commission of India with serious complaints that have come from across the state about anomalies in the counting of votes.
The party also hailed the National Conference-Indian National Congress victory in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the topmost priority of the alliance government there will be the restoration of statehood.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here today, party general secretary in charge Communications Jairam Ramesh and chairman of the media and publicity department Pawan Khera maintained that the election results in Haryana were totally in contravention of the ground realities and public sentiment that was for change and transformation.
Khera disclosed that there were specific complaints about the possible manipulations of the EVMs. He said, some of the candidates referred to some EVMs having 99 per cent battery strength even at the end of the counting and the results from all the machines went against the Congress. While as he added, that those machines, whose battery strength was normal, between 60 to 70 per cent, showed the normal trend.
Khera said, there were several other serious complaints which were being collected and in the coming days the party will approach the Election Commission of India. “Yeh tantra ki jeet aur loktantra ki haar hai (this is the defeat of democracy by manipulating the system)”, he remarked.
Asserting that the results were questionable, Jairam Ramesh said that the Congress had been shown losing, where there was no scope of its candidates losing.
“Results in Haryana are totally unexpected, completely surprising and counterintuitive going against ground reality and what the people of Haryana had made their mind for which was for change and transformation”, he said, while adding, “it is not possible for us to accept the results that have been announced today”.
Asserting that serious questions have been raised by the party candidates, he said, “what we have seen in Haryana today, is a victory of manipulation, a victory of subverting the will of the people and a defeat for the transparent democratic processes”.
“Chapter on Haryana is not complete, it will continue”, he remarked, adding, “Victory has been snatched from us by misuse of means and people’s sentiments were different as the ground reality was in favour of change and transformation”.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress leaders said that the coalition government of the National Conference and Congress will be formed, which will be transparent and answerable. They said the top priority of the government will be the restoration of the statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.
They added, besides, there will be a common programme, apart from the respective manifestoes of the two parties. They said the alliance will provide a “responsible, responsive, accountable and transparent government”.
“The people of Jammu and Kashmir have given a clear and categorical verdict in favour of the NC-INC alliance”, they said, while pointing out how the BJP tried till last minute to manipulate and cobble up a majority by various means. “People of JK have defeated the mischievous designs of the BJP to engineer a majority of their own”, Ramesh remarked.
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