PM Modi additionally took “parjeevi” jibe at Congress over ends in Jammu and Kashmir.
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a jibe at Congress over its criticism and subsequent letter to the Election Fee relating to “slowdown in updating outcomes” of meeting polls in Haryana and alleged that the opposition occasion needs to tarnish each establishment.
Addressing occasion employees in Delhi after BJP victory in Haryana polls, PM Modi alleged that Congress has tried to mislead the individuals of the nation.
“Whether or not it’s the Election Fee of the nation, the police, the judiciary, the Congress needs to tarnish each establishment. You’ll keep in mind the form of ruckus they created earlier than the outcomes of the Lok Sabha elections. Through the elections too, these individuals and their city Naxalite allies had gone to the Supreme Court docket to tarnish the picture of the Election Fee. Right now additionally they’ve performed the identical. Congress has tried to mislead the individuals of the nation.
Congress at all times tries to query the impartiality of our establishments, tries to tarnish their status. This has been the behavior of Congress. Congress has been doing such issues shamelessly,” he mentioned.
He additionally took “parjeevi” jibe at Congress over ends in Jammu and Kashmir. The Nationwide Convention-Congress alliance received majority within the meeting polls with the previous accounting for over three-fourth seats received by the alliance.
“In J-Okay, its (Congress) allies had been already frightened that they had been struggling losses due to Congress and at this time’s outcomes have proven the identical. You have to do not forget that we noticed the identical factor within the election outcomes as nicely. In Lok Sabha, half of the seats received by Congress had been due to their allies. Aside from this, the place the allies trusted Congress, the boat of these allies sank. In lots of states, the allies of Congress needed to bear the brunt of Congress’s poor efficiency,” he mentioned.
“Congress is such a parasite occasion that swallows its allies. Congress needs to make such a rustic the place individuals hate their very own heritage, doubt their nationwide establishments, needs to tarnish the picture of all the things that the countrymen are happy with. Whether or not it’s the nation’s Election Fee, the nation’s police, the nation’s judiciary, Congress needs to tarnish each establishment,” he added.
The Election Fee on Tuesday termed as “ill-founded” Congress allegation of slowdown in updating outcomes of meeting polls in Haryana and mentioned it rejects the try “to surreptitiously give credence to irresponsible, unfounded and uncorroborated malafide narratives”.
The Election Fee responded to a memorandum by Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh wherein the occasion complained about “unexplained slowdown” in updating of outcomes of Haryana meeting polls on its web site.
The BJP is ready to kind its third successive authorities in Haryana because it received 48 seats within the 90-member meeting as per the outcomes introduced on Tuesday. The Congress received 37 seats.
In its reply to Jairam Ramesh’s letter, the ballot panel mentioned {that a} considerably comparable concern was raised by Congress in regard to the Lok Sabha elections on June 4 which was “ill-founded and dismissed by the Fee”.
The ballot panel mentioned it had categorically responded that counting of votes is being carried out as per Rule 60 of Conduct of Election Guidelines on the designated counting centres and by the designated authorities following the Statutory and Regulatory regime.
“With regards to your at this time’s Memorandum relating to slowdown in updating of the outcomes of Haryana on the ECI Web site, it’s reiterated that all the counting course of in Haryana and J-Okay is unfolding within the presence of candidates, observers and micro-observers as per the Statutory scheme,” the ballot panel mentioned in its reply.
“There may be nothing on file to substantiate your ill-founded allegation of slowdown in updating of outcomes. Your Memorandum additionally doesn’t deliver out any opposite info as to the delay at any of the constituencies in Haryana or J-Okay. As could be gleaned from the publicly out there information on the outcomes web site of the ECI, pace of the round-wise updation by Returning Officers would allay all of your fears,” it added.
The ballot panel additionally shared a desk about updating tendencies from completely different constituencies and mentioned roughly 25 rounds throughout all of the constituencies are being up to date each 5 minutes, “which testifies dissemination of counting course of in a speedy method”.
“In view of the above, the Fee unequivocally rejects your try and surreptitiously give credence to irresponsible, unfounded and uncorroborated malafide narratives,” the reply mentioned.
Earlier within the day, the tendencies confirmed that BJP was forward by a margin of 15 seats in Haryana and Congress leaders insisted that the occasion will see a surge within the final rounds of counting. They alleged that the Election Fee was not updating its web site on real-time foundation.
Jairam Ramesh had requested if the BJP governments had been attempting to construct strain on the native administration in Haryana districts.”We’re submitting a memorandum, we’re lodging a criticism. We hope that the EC will reply our questions. The outcomes of 10-11 rounds are already out however solely 4 to 5 rounds have been up to date on EC web site. This can be a tactic to strain the Administration,” Jairam Ramesh informed ANI.
“There isn’t any should be disheartened. The sport isn’t over. Thoughts video games are being performed. We won’t deter, there isn’t a should be disheartened. We’re going to get the mandate. Congress goes to kind the federal government,” he added.
He additionally complained of “unexplained slowdown” in a submit on X.”Just like the Lok Sabha elections, in Haryana we’re once more witnessing a slowing down of importing up-to- date tendencies on the ECI web site. Is the BJP attempting to construct strain on administration by sharing outdated and deceptive tendencies.”
In his letter Jairam Ramesh sought speedy instructions to officers to replace the web site with “true and correct figures”.
“During the last two hours between Sep 11 am, there was an unexplained slowdown in updating of outcomes on the ECI’s web site. As you possibly can think about this enables dangerous religion actors to spin narratives that undermine the method. You possibly can see examples of it already taking part in out on social media. Our worry can be that such narratives can then be utilized by these mala fide actors to affect processes the place counting remains to be underway i.e. in a lot of the counting centres,” he mentioned within the letter.”We request you to situation speedy instructions to your officers to replace the web site with true and correct figures in order that false information and malicious narratives could be countered instantly,” the letter added.
Following EC’s reply to his letter, Jairam Ramesh shot off one other letter, saying the ballot panel’s “reply was fully hostile in nature” and “inappropriate phrases” had been used. Mr Ramesh mentioned Congress is “appalled on the defensive tone and tenor taken within the letter”.
“Not solely is the reply fully hostile in nature, it degrades the conversational stage to an unacceptable low, which itself is shocking for a physique speculated to be impartial and neutral and it misrepresents essential info in a vein just like that performed by the ruling occasion,” the letter mentioned. Mr Ramesh mentioned ECI acts as if Congress is “spreading a malicious narrative”.
“First, it’s an indisputable fact, and one that may be established with the ECI’s personal information, that on the time of the illustration for a number of seats the pages had been displaying rounds at 3/4. This was an remark made independently by quite a few people each on tv and on social media. But the ECI acts as if it’s the INC spreading a malicious narrative,” he mentioned.
“Second, we now have documented all our complaints to the ECI, and have catalogued the ECI’s motion on them. After we make complaints, we achieve this on the idea of credible info acquired or information. We annex a number of paperwork to assist our claims and within the hearings granted current these for scrutiny. The ECI’s personal printed information attests that they’ve acted on the majority of our complaints thereby implying that we weren’t unreasonable or unfair in our prayers to the ECI,” he added.
Addressing a press convention on the occasion workplace later, Jairam Ramesh and Congress chief Pawan Khera rejected meeting ends in Haryana, saying the result is “completely surprising, fully shocking, counter-intuitive and towards ground-reality and that “it’s not potential for the occasion “to simply accept the outcomes”.
They mentioned the Congress central management has acquired “very critical complaints” on the method of counting and they’ll transfer the Election Fee.
Jairam Ramesh mentioned “what we now have seen at this time in Haryana is a victory for manipulation, a victory for subverting the need of the individuals and it’s a defeat for clear democratic processes””The ends in Haryana are completely surprising, fully shocking and counter-intuitive. It goes towards floor actuality. It goes towards what the individuals of Haryana had made their minds up for, which was for change and transformation. I feel beneath these circumstances, it’s not potential for us to simply accept the outcomes which have been introduced at this time,” he mentioned. .
“Now we have acquired very critical complaints on the method of counting, the functioning of EVMs in not less than three districts. There are extra which might be coming in. Now we have spoken to our senior colleagues in Haryana and this info is being collected. We hope to current this in a consolidated kind to the Election Fee tomorrow or the day after. We are going to search time…Critical questions have been raised by our candidates. We are going to deliver it to the discover of the Election Fee,” he added.
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