Repolling at Parthampura sales space in Santrampur taluka of Mahisagar district below the Dahod Lok Sabha constituency recorded a voter turnout of 69.93 per cent on Saturday — 0.34 per cent increased than the turnout recorded on day the day of the election on Could 7 — when BJP member Vijay Bhabhor, also the son of a BJP leader, was arrested for live-streaming his act of bogus voting from the booth.
The sales space had recorded a turnout of 69.59 per cent with 852 voters exercising their franchise final Tuesday, when Gujarat had voted for 25 Lok Sabha seats.
The polling station, which has 1,224 registered voters, noticed 856 voters turning as much as forged their vote amid heavy police deployment, together with an assistant superintendent of police, on Saturday. The polling station had recorded a turnout of 54.25 per cent till 3pm with 664 voters queuing up within the day. The quantity went as much as 856 by the shut of voting.
Dahod district election officers stated that the repolling went off easily. The Election Fee of India (ECI) has declared null and void the voting that occurred at Parthampur polling station on Could 7, taking into consideration the report from the returning officer and observer relating to the irregularities, after Bhabhor’s live-streaming video went viral.
The repolling occurred as Bhabhor remained in preventive custody at Santrampur police station, after he was arrested and granted bail within the case of bogus voting in addition to in a second FIR lodged in opposition to him for assaulting a Congress polling agent in neighbouring Gothib village when he and three others had been prevented from casting bogus votes on Could 7.
In Dahod, BJP’s sitting MP Jasvantsinh Bhabhor is pitted in opposition to Congress’s Prabha Taviyad, who had written to the returning officer, looking for repoll for the sales space.
On Could 7, Bhabhor had stayed within the polling sales space for 5 minutes, throughout which he went stay on Instagram. Within the over 4-minute video clip that was later faraway from social media platforms, he might be seen getting into the sales space and focussing the digicam on the EVM (digital voting machine) and VVPAT (voter verifiable paper audit path) whereas defying the warnings of polling officers.
“Give us 10 minutes, we’re sitting right here… Solely the BJP can run (right here). Machine aapda baapnu che (the machine belongs to our father),” he’s heard saying in Gujarati. He additionally claimed to forged a number of votes, requested voters to press the BJP’s lotus image and stated he was “in management” of the realm.
Mahisagar SP Jaydeepsinh Jadeja had advised The Indian Express on Wednesday that Bhabhor was a BJP member and Bhabhor’s father, Ramesh, is a former president of the Santrampur taluka panchayat.