Repolling in one booth of Lohaghat

Dehradun, March 12

The Election Commission has ordered repolling in a booth of the Lohaghat Assembly seat in Uttarakhand where EVMs malfunctioned, forcing the counting to be stopped midway.

Repolling in booth number 128, Government Inter College at Karankarayat, was ordered after the EVMs stopped displaying results due to some technical problem, prompting the authorities to stop counting, the state Election Office said here last night.

Polling would be held afresh on March 15. Counting would be undertaken and the results declared the same evening, it said.

The poll panel had asked its state representatives to keep the documents pertaining to yesterday’s counting for the Assembly seat sealed till the announcement of the booth’s results.

When the EVMs stopped, BJP’s Puran Singh Fartyal was ahead of his nearest rival, Congress’ Khushal Singh by 450 votes.—PTI