Counting will end the vigil of six youths at strong rooms

It is three more days before the counting of votes for the Parliamentary election begins in Adilabad.
The process is expected to bring much needed relief to the Adilabad (ST) Lok Sabha constituency election machinery, the candidates themselves and the six youths who are keeping a vigil on behalf of three candidates at the strong rooms where the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Train (VVPAT) are stored.
These youths, of whom not many know, are representatives of Congress candidate Ramesh Rathod and Independents -- Kumra Raju and Are Ellanna -- and have so far spent 37 days within a short distance of the strong room at the three counting and reception centres in town. The candidates had sought to put their own guard in the centre and the election authority had permitted them to do so as per the provision under instruction 13.55.5 of the Handbook for Returning Officer issued by the Election Commission of India.
 

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