As per report it was stated that amid stray violence and EVM glitches, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar constituencies in West Bengal polled 18 per cent votes in the first two hours of polling on Thursday as the Lok Sabha polls kicked off in the country. Meanwhile of the total over 34 lakh voters in these constituencies, an average 18.10 per cent had polled till 9 a.m., an Election Commission official told in Kolkata.
Reportedly long queues could be seen in front of the booths in both the constituencies from well before the polling process began at 7 a.m. Accordingly voting process in a number of polling stations in Cooch Behar was temporarily disrupted for sometime as EVM machines stopped working. Trinamool Congress district chief Rabindranath Ghosh alleged a conspiracy and said he had complained to the District Magistrate.
Ghosh said “How can so many EVMs go bad? We smell a conspiracy and he had tried to complain to the Election Commission but they are not reachable. So he had informed the District Magistrate”.
