EC begins its probe in Chapra

A two-member team from the Election Commission on Sunday began its inquiry into complaints of booth capturing and violence allegedly by acti...

A two-member team from the Election Commission on Sunday began its inquiry into complaints of booth capturing and violence allegedly by activists of the ruling RJD, during polling in the Chapra Lok Sabha constituency on April 26. RJD supremo Laloo Yadav crossed swords with Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy for this parliamentary constituency.

The team comprising K.J. Rao and Ananth Kumar left Patna for Chapra, stopping at several places in the Sonepur Assembly segment of the constituency to ask villagers about the situation during the polling.

While locals at Gangajal impressed upon the members of the poll panel that polling was peaceful, hardly five kilometers away at Bharpura, voters alleged that the district administration attempted to rig the elections in favour of the RJD chief.

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The EC officials stopped at Atsitaganj and Dumri too, where a group of RJD supporters sitting on dharna alleged that BJP activists prevented them from voting and also indulged in booth capturing.

RJD chief Laloo Yadav met the EC team on its arrival at the Patna airport and sought to depose before it in Chapra later in the day to explain his position.

The EC had on April 29 ordered a detailed inquiry into complaints of booth capturing in the Chapra constituency, following appeals by the NDA to countermand polls in view of large-scale violence and rigging allegedly by RJD activists.

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