The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday wrote to the Maharashtra State Election Commission seeking an order to stop internet services within a three-kilometre radius of every poll booth and strong room in the poll-bound state from October 21 to 24.The NCP is headed by the former chief minister of Maharashtra Sharad Pawar."To avoid such criminal activities from taking place we request you to issue an order in Maharashtra that within the 3 km radius of every poll booth and strong room (where EVMs would be stored) Internet services should be stopped from the time voting begins from October 21 to counting of votes is concluded on October 24," the letter written by NCP Maharashtra general Secretary Shivajirao Gajre read.The NCP said that there is a suspicion among people of Maharashtra that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPATs)can be "hacked" and the votes that they cast go to some other candidate whom they do not wish to vote for.It ...
