Assam Assembly elections | Anchalik Gana Morcha urges EC to videograph counting process

The three-phase Assam Assembly elections were held on March 27, April 1 and April 6

The Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM), a constituent of the Opposition Congress-led ‘Mahajoot’ in Assam, on April 11 urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to videograph the May 2 counting of the Assembly elections in the State. In a letter to the EC, AGM president and the Rajya Sabha member Ajit Kumar Bhuyan said the Commission has to depend on the State bureaucracy in the entire process of the Assembly elections, and claimed that there is an “apprehension” that some sections of the employees may favour the ruling BJP and “can do mischief in the counting”. “To make the counting process fair and transparent we urge the Hon’ble Forum [EC] to take all such possible steps as provided in the Conduct of Election Rule, 1961 as well as the notifications issued by the Commission from time to time. One such step towards transparency would be to do videography of the entire counting process,” the party chief said in the letter.