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YSR Congress party on Monday defended the Election Commission saying it had conducted the elections smoothly and said violent incidents had taken place only in those districts where pro-TDP police were there.
In yet another glaring example of gross malfunction of the Election Commission in conducting the elections in Andhra Pradesh in a fool-proof manner, more than 200 slips from Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines were found in a corner of a zilla parishad school in Atmakur town of Nellore district on Monday.
For the last four days. Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is making a hue and cry over malfunctioning of electronic voting machines, allegedly to find excuses for his imminent defeat in the just concluded assembly elections in the state.
Though it is nearly 40 days to go for the announcement of results for the recently held assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress party appears to be getting ready for the swearing-in ceremony of party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy as the chief minister of the state.
It has been four days since the high voltage elections to the Andhra Pradesh state assembly were held, but there seems to be no respite in the violence between the Telugu Desam Party and YSR Congress party in different parts of the state.
TDP chief and AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu's so-called 'Mission Delhi' to fight against usage of EVMs in elections, has become a laughing stock in Delhi.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu will be campaigning for ruling Janata Dal-Secular-Congress alliance in Karnataka.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday that his fight for replacing EVMs with ballot papers is to protect democracy in India.
The Election Commission on Sunday wrote back to the Telugu Desam Party pointing out that the name of its technical adviser Hari Prasad, arrested for EVM theft in 2010, was not there in the list of delegates provided by the party when Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his team met with the poll panel on Saturday.
The war of words between N Chandrababu Naidu's party and the Election Commission continued after the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister took protest over faulty voting machines to Delhi yesterday.
The unsavoury comments made by Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu against chief secretary L V Subrahmanyam incurred the wrath of retired IAS officers.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said the Election Commission (EC) has lost its credibility as 'it functions on the instructions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his office'.
The polling for the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections concluded in the early hours of Friday and a record 79 per cent of 3.96 crore voters exercised their franchise. The fate of the political parties is sealed in the electronic voting machiners.
Following the conclusion of polling for Andhra Pradesh assembly, both the Telugu Desam Party headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and YSR Congress party headed by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy are expressing confidence, at least for the public consumption, that they would come to power in the state.
YSR Congress party general secretary and Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy demanded that the Election Commission of India deploy central reserve police forces for the protection of electronic voting machines in the strong rooms.
