Recently, many viral posts and videos have been reported on social media claiming that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are being manipulated.
However, as soon as these videos started doing the rounds on social media, Election Commission of India (ECI) has come out with facts and evidences which refute the content of all such videos and posts.
We bring to readers both the potentially misleading claims about EVMs on social media and the ECI’s response to them.
The statement from the returning officer of Chandauli Lok Sabha clarifies that the EVMs and VVPATs used in the polls were transported and locked in the strong room in the presence of the contestants or their agents.
The security of these strong rooms was then handed over to Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
— Piyush Rai (@Benarasiyaa) May 20, 2019
After the conclusion of Lok Sabha Elections of 2019, many analyses on the results were done.
According to a Business Standard report, about 61 crores voters had exercised their franchise in the Lok Sabha elections 2019, out of the total voting-eligible population of about 90.99 crores in India.
The estimates suggest that BJP had a vote share of about 37.5% and NDA about 45%.
Thus, in an election campaign which was seen as a referendum on PM Narendra Modi, Bhartiya Janata Party under his leadership got more than 22.5 crore votes whereas National Democratic Alliance led by BJP has received more than 27 crore votes.
But in a democratic polity, the number of votes at this scale show the popularity of the leader.
In fact, with 27 crore votes, PM Modi is now a leader who has got the highest number of votes ever in a democratic country in history.
At least 67.84% voters turned up at the polling stations as 95 constituencies in 11 States and one Union Territory went to the polls in the second phase of polling for the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday.The Election Commission (EC) officials in New Delhi, however, said that the turnout percentage would go up when the final reports in all polling stations would come in.
The Lok Sabha constituencies, which went to the polls in the second phase, had registered an average turnout of 69.62% during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.The ninety one Constituencies, wherever polling was command withinthe initial section on Apr eleven last, had recorded a sixty nine.43% turnout.The EC set up nearly 1.78 lakh Polling Stations for over 15.52 crore voters to exercise franchise and decide the fate of altogether 1596 candidates.Sudeep Jain, Deputy Election Commissioner, said that only 0.371% of the Ballot Units of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), 0.40% of the Control Units and 1.45% of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) devices deployed for polls in 95 constituencies had to be replaced after they developed glitches and malfunctioned.The reports of the EVMs being damaged by miscreants came in from two polling stations located in Inner Manipur constituency of Manipur and Uttar Dinajpur constituency of West Bengal respectively, said Jain.The constituencies, which went to polls in the second phase, included 14 of the total 28 parliamentary constituencies in Karnataka.
The polling for the remaining Lok Sabha seats from the state will take place in the third phase on April 23.Five constituencies in state, 3 in Chhattisgarh, 2 in Jammu and Kashmir, ten in geographical area, one in province and eight in Uttar Pradesh conjointly visited the polls on Thursday.
Polling was conjointly command in 5 constituencies every in Bihar and Odisha, 3 in province and one in Union Territory of Puducherry on Thursday.An official deployed by the EC for works related to polling was killed in an attack by ultra-leftist insurgents in Odisha on Wednesday.
A 95-year-old man also collapsed and died while waiting in the queue before a polling station in the State on Thursday.
Another man was killed in a clash between two political parties in the state, Chandra Bhushan Kumar, Deputy Election Commissioner, said in New Delhi.A polling official also died in Chhatisgarh after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Thanks to the Modi government for becoming the voice of the non-Muslim refugees, today in true sense they got independence.
On Wednesday (11.12.2019), after a long discussion in the Rajya Sabha, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 got a clean chit in the Rajya Sabha.
Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 in Rajya Sabha.
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) December 11, 2019
Earlier Union Home Minister Amit Shah took this debatable Bill in the Upper House, in Lok Sabha, which got clearance with a great margin, the votes in favor were 311 and against members were 80.
He also tried to solve all the queries of the Opposition’s allegation who called this Bill as the anti-Muslim, saying that the Bill will have no repercussion on Indian Muslims.
This comment was made when he was inaugurating a Passport Seva Kendra at Rajpipla in Narmada district of Gujarat.
Rajpipla is the same place 25 km from where the world’s tallest statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is standing at a height of 182 meters stands.
This is important because the statue is a global attraction bringing in tourists from all around the world.
With the opening of a Passport Seva Kendra, it will also allow locals to travel abroad.Jaishankar was recently elected to the Rajya sabha of Gujarat.
He states that as a foreign minister he believes that every Lok-sabha constituency and every district should receive their own Passport Seva Kendra.
With the digitization of the passport acquirement services and with all the information regarding the process, which is available on the Passport Portal India, getting a passport will become dramatically easy.
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https://cryptobusinessworld.com/ArticleDetail/4886/crypto-business-world-cryptocurrency-static-on-theside-linesThis week has seen the renascent global benefit in cryptocurrencies, with Elon Musk breaking headlines by investing more than $1.5 billion in Bitcoin.
In India, even so, cryptocurrencies (like Bitcoin and Ether) are presently trading at a discount.
This is also one rationale why Google could not compare ground data attending blockades and one-way roads with its satellite navigation systems.
In 2013, the Reserve Bank of India elevated concerns over the possible financial, operational, legal, and consumer protection risks coming up from cryptocurrencies.
In 2018, the central bank issued an order stating that banks and financial institutions shall not trade with crypto-related businesses, and all regulated entities decreasing within the purview of RBI shall stop render services to such platforms.
The Supreme Court struck down the provisions which figuratively banned crypto-trade in 2020.
