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Pawan Khera, who heads the party’s Media and Publicity Department, is among top trending topics in the Google search on Wednesday. As per trends.google numbers, over 1000 searches were made on the topic with a significant surge of 500 per cent on the Google search.
Khera became a trending topic after his comments on the Congress party’s Haryana election defeat surfaced on Social Media. Asked what message is the Congress sending to voters by taking different stands on the results in Haryana and J&K, Pawan Khera said, “It would have been strange if we had said that the machines malfunctioned across Haryana. We are not saying the machines malfunctioned everywhere in Haryana. Take, for example, Narnaul Assembly. It can’t be a coincidence. The machine units which had a battery percentage of 99 have defeated us, and those which had less battery like 60-70 per cent have given us wins. This can’t be a coincidence.”
He said similar issues have been reported in Hisar, Mahendergarh and Panipat districts.
Two EC sources said no candidate or their agents objected at the time of close of polls. The life of a battery depends on how many mock polls have been conducted using it before a poll, but a battery can remain at 99% for an entire poll process, the sources said.
According to another source with knowledge of the functioning of EVMs, the batteries usually last for an entire election and counting process. However, battery usage depends on the number of votes cast, the number of times the total votes are checked by pressing the total button, and the duration of the mock poll. It is possible for a battery to discharge faster than another, the source said.
The BJP made history in the political arena on Tuesday when it became the first party to win for the third consecutive time in Haryana. The saffron party won 48 out of the 90 Assembly seats surpassing its previous high of securing 47 seats in 2014.
