Congress-ZPM lodge complaint against returning officer

Political hobnobbing is still going on in Mizoram after the polling for the lone Lok Sabha seat with the the opposition targeting the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) over myriad issues.
The Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) and the Indian National Congress (INC) have lodged fresh complaint with the state chief electoral officer (CEO), seeking prompt action against a returning officer of the Lok Sabha poll for his alleged ‘deliberate act’ to defame the ZPM-Congress joint candidate Lalnghinglova Hmar.
In a letter to the CEO, ZPM and Congress said that the default list of contesting candidates were displayed in some polling stations till the last hour of polling day in Lunglei district, where Hmar, placed in serial number 5 in EVMs, was misplaced with an independent candidate at serial number 4. The letter was received by Joint CEO, H Lianzela as the CEO was on leave. The candidates’ list was transparently displayed outside the polling stations for information to voters, they said.

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