NEW DELHI: The battle for Nandigram between Mamata Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikari went all the way to the wire, with both candidates leading several times during the day after individual rounds of counting. At 7.54pm, Adhikari tweeted from his official handle, claiming he had won by 1,736 votes. After the last (17th) round of counting, the TMC agent demanded a recount, but the returning officer turned it down. This prompted senior TMC leaders Derek O’Brien, Firhad Hakim and Kalyan Banerjee to meet CEO, demanding a recount.
Later, EC sources said there was no scope of even the poll panel questioning the result of the returning officer, under the Representation of People’s Act, 1951. The only way was to file an election petition in the high court. The EC’s website, updated around 11pm, declared Adhikari the winner by a margin of 1,956 votes.
On Sunday evening, a Trinamool delegation led by its Rajya Sabha MP Derek O Brien, former Mayor Firhad Hakim, MP Kalyan Banerjee and Atin Ghosh met CEO Ariz Aftab and submitted a letter demanding recounting of votes. In t
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PUDUCHERRY: The Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements to announce the early trends and the final results of assembly elections in the Union territory of Puducherry and four states besides byelections, said Puducherry district collector and district officer Purva Garg.
The commission will update the round-wise trends of each constituency every few minutes and announce the results on its website https://results.eci.gov.in and through the mobile application Voter Helpline’.
The counting of votes in Puducherry will commence at 8am on Sunday at three centres in the Puducherry region covering 23 assembly constituencies, a centre at Karaikal covering five constituencies and a centre for Mahe and Yanam each covering one constituency each.