New Delhi: The AAP on Sunday appeared to press the panic button at the end of polling to Delhi's municipal corporations with the party sniping at the state election commission over "faulty EVMs" and resultant "waste" of time.
AAP spokesperson Richa Pandey Mishra claimed people had to go back from many polling stations as "several" electronic voting machines (EVM) turned out faulty.
Pandey said the ensuing delay was avoidable as the officials took time to repair the machines. Meanwhile, senior party leader Sanjay Singh was asked to leave a booth in Janakpuri by a polling official when he was talking to reporters inside the booth premises.
"You are done with voting so leave now," the official was seen telling Singh in a video that was shared by hundreds on social media.
The Aam Aadmi Party chief also alleged that many voters with valid voter slips were "not allowed" to exercise their franchise in the municipal polls.
Kejriwal had earlier demanded that the election be postponed till arrangements for voter-verified paper audit trail or VVPAT-equipped electronic voting machines (EVMs) were made.
"Reports from all over Delhi of EVM malfunction, people wid voter slips not allowed to vote. What is SEC doing? (sic)" he wrote on Twitter.
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