The Congress-led 10-party alliance in Assam moved the Election Commission on Tuesday requesting steps for “fair and smooth” counting of votes on May 2.
Polling in Assam was held on March 27, April 1 and 6 with both the Congress-led alliance and the ruling BJP-led alliance exuding confidence of winning the keenly-contested elections.
Led by Assam PCC president Ripun Bora, senior leaders of the alliance went to the office of the chief electoral officer to submit a two-page memorandum to the chief election commissioner requesting a slew of directives to “maintain transparency, impartiality for fair and smooth counting of votes”.
The Congress had on April 7 moved the CEO seeking access/link of CCTV surveillance of the strong rooms to all the contesting candidates because they fear that the ruling BJP “may go to any extent to manipulate the mandate” of the Assembly polls.