New Delhi: Congress presidential ballot candidate Shashi Tharoor’s crew has written to the get together’s chief election authority, flagging “extraordinarily severe irregularities” within the conduct of the election in Uttar Pradesh and demanded that each one votes from the state be deemed invalid, sources stated.

Tharoor’s marketing campaign crew has additionally raised “severe points” within the conduct of the election in Punjab and Telangana.

In his letter to Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry, Tharoor’s chief election agent Salman Soz has stated the information are “damning” and the election course of in Uttar Pradesh is “devoid of credibility and integrity”, they stated.

Soz conveyed to Mistry that what has been witnessed in Uttar Pradesh is an open problem to the authority of “your workplace” in addition to contempt for the orders of the Congress president and the Congress Working Committee to carry free and truthful elections.

“We want to underline that we’ve got no proof that Mallikarjun Kharge ji was conscious of how his supporters have been partaking in electoral malpractice in Uttar Pradesh. We’re sure that if he was conscious, he would by no means enable what occurred in Uttar Pradesh,” Soz stated in his letter, in response to sources.

“He (Kharge) wouldn’t enable the tainting of an election that’s so essential for the Indian Nationwide Congress,” Soz was quoted as saying within the letter.

The “irregularities” in Uttar Pradesh flagged by Tharoor’s crew embrace use of unofficial seals for poll containers, presence of unofficial individuals in polling cubicles, voting malpractice, no polling abstract sheet, presence of AICC secretaries in-Cost of Uttar Pradesh.

“We don’t see how this election will be deemed free and truthful if the contaminated means of Uttar Pradesh is allowed to face. We, due to this fact, demand that each one votes from Uttar Pradesh be deemed invalid,” the letter dated October 18 stated, in response to the sources.

Tharoor’s crew stated it suspects “voter fraud” on this election, alleging that there have been delegates who weren’t current within the Lucknow space on the day of voting and their votes have been solid.

There have been complaints from folks about not being allowed to solid their votes since others had already solid their votes, the letter stated.

“When our brokers complained about voter malpractice, supporters of the opposite facet would come contained in the polling sales space and create a ruckus and begin threatening our polling brokers,” Soz stated, in response to sources.

In a separate letter to Mistry, Tharoor’s crew additionally raised severe points within the conduct of the election in Punjab and Telangana.

Tharoor had repeatedly raised the difficulty of uneven enjoying subject within the polls however maintained that Gandhis had assured him of neutrality.

Of the full 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that fashioned the electoral school to select the get together chief in a secret poll, over 9,500 solid their poll at PCC places of work and the AICC headquarters on Monday.

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