UP Polls: Seems youth, farmers in full rage: Jayant Chaudhary on EVM glitches
Noida, Feb 10: Amid reports of glitches in EVMs at some places where assembly polls were underway in Uttar Pradesh, Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary on Thursday said it seems that the youth and farmers were pressing the button in full rage.
There are complaints about EVM malfunctioning. It seems the youth and farmers are pressing the button in full rage!! Request you not so hard, press the button in favour of the alliance with love!!, Chaudhary tweeted in a lighter vein in Hindi.
Chaudhary, whose RLD is fighting the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls in tie-up with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, earlier in the day appealed to people to go out and vote in large numbers.
Participate in the festival of democracy, go out of your houses and vote to elect a government that works for you, he said in a video message.
Additional Chief Election Officer (ACEO) B D Ram Tiwari in Lucknow said polling for the first phase of assembly elections on 58 seats of 11 districts in the state was underway peacefully
"There were reports of a technical error in EVMs at some places. Those EVMs are being replaced," he said.
On Samajwadi Party's allegation that poor voters were not allowed to exercise their franchise in Dundukheda village in the Kairana assembly constituency, Tiwari said the district magistrate concerned have been asked to look into the matter.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
