New Delhi, Feb 2 : The Election Commission of India has ordered repoll/fresh poll in 34 polling stations in Manipur which would be conducted on February 4 from 7 am to 3 pm.Issuing fresh orders, the Commission declared the earlier polling held in these booths on January 28 as null and void.
Polling will be held again at 34 booths across 11 constituencies in Manipur owing to fraud and violence during voting in the state assembly elections on 28 January.
In Manipur, repoll has been ordered in certain polling booths of 11 assembly constituencies of Chinsai (ST), Tamei (ST), Tamenglong (ST), Nungba (ST), Mao (ST), Tadubi (ST), Tipaimukh, Thanlon, Henglep, Chandel and Tengnoupal.
Polling had been countermanded in certain polling booths in Manipur due to sporadic incidents of violence and damage to EVMs during the January 28 polls in the state.
Manipur, which has a 17.5-lakh-strong electorate, recorded a total poll percentage of around 80 per cent. The polling was marred by militant violence that claimed seven lives, including those of security personnel and an ultra.
On the polling day, a man posing as a voter had entered a polling station in an interior area in Chandel assembly constituency at around 12:30 pm and started firing indiscriminately, killing a CRPF man, three polling persons and two voters on-the-spot, before he was gunned down.
Including the presiding officer, seven persons were killed in the fire-fight between CRPF personnel manning the polling station and suspected cadres of NSCN (IM) on the day of polling.
There were also reports from six other places in the state where mobs had damaged Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and, in another incident, miscreants had snatched an EVM.
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