Sanjay Singh was asked to leave by an EC official for giving an interview after casting his vote.
Things got a tad over-enthusiastic at the Janak Puri polling booth in New Delhi during the MCD elections as EC officials and AAP leader Sanjay Singh got into a scuffle. After giving his vote, Sanjay Singh was talking to reporters in which he expressed his belief the AAP would win the MCD polls in 2017 after 10 years of BJP rule.
However, polling booth officials were left unimpressed that he gave the interview to the media and asked him to rudely leave the venue. This led to a heated argument between Singh and the official before he left the premises.
Sanjay Singh media interview
Sanjay Singh asked to leave
The AAP and EC Have been clashing over the usage of EVMs. On the eve of the polls Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said he was afraid that there would be 5%-10% EVM tampering in MCD polls. "One, pre-2006 EVMs without security features are being used in Delhi; two, these EVMs have no VVPATs; three, the EVMs are coming from Rajasthan (where he said EVMs were tampered with).... The only way to fail EVM tampering is to vote for the AAP tomorrow in huge numbers... People must defeat the EVM tampering," he said
Just a couple of days before the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) suffered a blow as the Delhi High Court on Friday rejected their plea for the use of the Electronic Voting Machines with Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT ) for the upcoming civic polls.
Delhi’s voter turnout for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections on Sunday touched only 1.16 percent till 10:30 a.m.
East Delhi is the slowest so far with only 0.78 percent votes polled while North and South have reported 1.47 and 1.10 percent, respectively.
The polling is being conducted for 272 wards of three MCD civic bodies and over 2,500 candidates are in the fray.
After losing in this month's assembly by-polls and the February elections in Punjab and Goa, the municipal polls are seen as an acid test for Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi.
Kejriwal's former party colleague Yogendra Yadav, who now leads the Swaraj India, wrote an open letter to the chief minister and challenged him to win at least 50 percent seats in the civic polls or step down.
Even as the Swaraj India and the Janata Dal (United) look to expand base beyond Bihar and Jharkhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the AAP and the Congress have roped in top leaders and done whatever they could to woo the voters.
For the BJP, it's a matter of prestige. The Congress, buoyed by the Capt. Amarinder Singh-led victory in Punjab, is looking for a revival in Delhi politics.
For the first time in the MCD elections, the None Of The Above (NOTA) option is available and the elections are being held after the latest delimitation exercise that has restructured the civic wards.
The Delhi Election Commission has set up over 13,000 polling booths, out of which over 3,000 have been identified as sensitive while around 1,500 as hypersensitive.
Nearly 57, 000 police personnel have been deployed to ensure free and fair polls in the national capital.
With inputs from agencies
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