Lucknow
Samajwadi Party, which has given the biggest challenge to the BJP in the recently held elections in Uttar Pradesh, today alleged that electronic voting machines were being taken away from counting centers in Varanasi. The counting of votes will take place on Thursday and the party has claimed that it will win over 300 seats in the state where the BJP is hoping for another term in power.
However, the Varanasi District Magistrate said that the EVMs were being used for training and they were not used for voting.
Accusing “certain political parties” of “spreading rumours”, District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said that the EVMs used in the elections “are all sealed in the strong rooms occupied by the CRPF and there is CCTV surveillance which is being monitored by all. Looking at. Political parties”.
Sharma said, “The EVMs were going to UP College from a godown built in a separate food godown at Mandi.” Goes.”