Tag: Booth Rigging

The concerned woman also stopped a video journalist from recording any video in and outside the booth before warning him to leave the place at once. She could also be seen issuing open threats to the journalists. 

Dhenkanal district Collector Saroj Kumar Sethi said that four persons involved in rigging booths in the district have been arrested and further investigation in connection with the violent incident is underway.

Cuttack: Following OTV telecast on booth rigging during re-polls at Pokharigaon polling stations in Cuttack district on February 21, BJD spokesperson Surya Narayan Patro on Thursday stated the poll disturbances might have happened at places where multiple candidates contested for posts for which the election was held on no-party basis. Speaking to media persons here, […]

Baripada: The counting of votes for the bypolls to Zilla Parishad zone-32 of Mayurbhanj district began today amid tight security. According to information, the counting of votes underway at Bijatala block office will continue till 2 pm today and thereafter the results will be declared. As many as 17,779 voters turned out to cast their […]

Bhubaneswar: Alleging rigging, the Odisha unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday demanded re-polling in nine booths of Atagarh Assembly constituency. A delegation of the saffron party led by Cuttack Lok Sabha candidate and former Odisha DGP Prakash Mishra and party’s state Vice-President Samir Mohanty met the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha and […]

Kendrapara: Soon after voting began for the fourth phase elections in Odisha, an incident of booth rigging was unleashed at a polling station in Aul assembly segment under Kendrapara LS constituency. A video of a man allegedly influencing voters and casting multiple votes at booth no. 310 in Aliha Singiri Bazar UP School at Aul […]

Bhubaneswar: The last and fourth phase elections saw widespread violence in Odisha along with cases of booth rigging and booth capturing marring the biggest festival of democracy. All the three major political parties in the State- BJP, BJD and Congress- have brought poll violence and booth rigging allegations against each other. While BJP moved the […]