Bengal elections: Repolling in booths where taping of EVM buttons is verified, says EC

The Election Commission on Wednesday said that repolling will take place in election booths in West Bengal where it is “verified” that the Electronic Voting Machines had been tampered with, ANI reported.

The statement by the state’s chief electoral officer came after the Bharatiya Janata Party alleged that a tape had been used to cover the button that is to be used for vote for the Hindutva party, in several polling booths in Falta Assembly constituency.

BJP publicity chief Amit Malviya on Wednesday demanded an immediate re-election in “all affected booths in Falta where such incidents have occurred”.

One of the videos posted by Malviya on social media purportedly showed that the voting buttons for the BJP candidate and another nominee in booth number 170 had been covered with a tape.

Malviya claimed that booth number 189 had also been “compromised in a similar manner along with several others”.

This is what Mamata Banerjee was defending when she spoke up for Jehangir Khan, a criminal contesting on a TMC ticket from Falta in Diamond Harbour.

In several polling booths, the option to vote for the BJP has been blocked using a tape, effectively preventing voters from… pic.twitter.com/sKw3mcdA86— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) April 29, 2026

Malviya said that the alleged electoral fraud was the “so-called ‘Diamond Harbour Model’, the same template that...

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