"Assured us to look into compaint": Congress Bhupinder Singh Hooda after meeting with EC

New Delhi [India], October 9 : After the meeting with Election Commission of India over Haryana Assembly election, Congress leader Bhupinder Hooda said that the ECI has assured to look into the complaints made by the party.
Congress delegtion has informed EC about the "discrepancies" and complaints they received about some EVMs (electronic voting machines) and demanded sealing and securing of those 'faulty' EVMs until the course of the investigation.
"We have received many complaints. The counting of votes was delayed in several places. The Election Commission has assured us that they are looking into all the complaints," Bhoopinder Singh Hooda said.
A delegation of Congress including KC Venugopal, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Ashok Gehlot Pratap Singh Bajwa, Jairam Ramesh, Pawan Khera, Ajay Maken and Uday Bhan went to meet the Election Commission of India to address their concerns over the results of Haryana assembly polls.
Addressing the media, Bhupinder Singh Hooda described the election result as 'surprising'. He also mentioned that Congress was ahead when ballots were counted and raised questions about EVM.
"Everyone thought that Congress will form the government in Haryana. Be it IB, experts, survey reports, but what happened was that when the counting of postal ballots started, Congress was leading everywhere, but when the counting of EVMs started, Congress was lagging behind," Hooda said.
Earlier, Congress leader Pawan Khera informed that they have informed the ECI about the 20 complaints they received from the 20 constituencies, out of which, seven are written complaints.
"Today, KC Venugopal, Ashok Gehlot, Jairam Ramesh, Ajay Maken, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and other party leaders met the officials of ECI. We told ECI about the 20 complaints of which 7 are in written complaints from 7 constituencies. There were machines that were at 99% and other normal machines were at 60-70 per cent on the day of counting. We demanded that those machines should be sealed and secured until the investigation is complete. We also told ECI that in the next 48 hours, we will also present the remaining complaints to them," he said.
Referring to the seven written complaints, Khera said that they received complaints from Karnal, Hodal, Panipat City, Kalka, Rewari, Narnaul and Kalanwali constituencies.
Congress leader Pawan Khera said, "The Election Commission has assured us that they will look into this matter and they will reply to us after consulting their returning officers from each constituency. Complaints were from 20 Assembly constituencies. We have 7 written complaints, from Karnal, Hodal, Panipat City, Kalka, Rewari, Narnaul and Kalanwali. We have presented the documents of the complaints to ECI. Complaints from 13 more Assembly constituencies will be submitted to ECI in the next 48 hours. There were similar complaints from Chhattisgarh, we have reminded them of these complaints also."