EC behaving like Dhritarashtra: Arvind Kejriwal

April 10, 2017

New Delhi, Apr 10: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal today likened the Election Commission to the Mahabharat's Dhritarashtra character, saying the supposedly impartial election regulator is doing everything it can to get "its son" the BJP to win, by turning a blind eye to faulty voting machines.

"Election Commission has become Dhritarashtra, who is trying to win his son BJP at any cost," said Kejriwal.

As evidence of this, the Delhi CM implied that the EC was merely replacing allegedly faulty Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) instead of investigating them. "In such a circumstance, why are elections being held at all," he asked.

He further said that the EVMs aren't exactly "defective", they have been "tampered with".

If there were a defect, then some machines would have voted for the Congress and other opposition parties, Kejriwal reasoned.

"It means this is not a malfunction but the software of these machines have been tampered with or has been completely changed."

Kejriwal also alleged that even though EVMs are available in the Capital, they are being brought from Rajasthan for the April 23 Delhi municipal polls are being brought from Rajasthan although many EVMs were available in Delhi. "In such a scenario, would elections be fair?" he asked.

The AAP chief alleged that 18 machines in Rajasthan voted only for the BJP - in yesterday's Dholpur bypoll - no matter which button was pressed by the voters. He also made reference to an earlier allegedly tampered EVM in Bhind in Madhya Pradesh.

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‘Sufficient evidence’: Delhi court orders framing of sexual harassment charges against Brij Bhushan

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May 10,2024

New Delhi: In a big blow to Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a Delhi court has ordered the framing of charges against the former Wrestling Federation of India chief in the sexual harassment allegations levelled by women wrestlers. The court has said there is sufficient evidence on record to do so, and the trial against him can now begin.

Friday's order by the Rouse Avenue court comes days after the BJP decided not to repeat Mr Singh, who is the party MP from Uttar Pradesh's Kaiserganj, as the candidate from the constituency and decided to field his son Karan Bhushan Singh instead.

The court has ordered the framing of charges under Indian Penal Code sections Ordered to frame charges against Brij Bhushan under sections 354 (outraging a woman's modesty), 354-A (sexual harassment) and 506 (criminal intimidation). The Delhi Police had filed a chargesheet against under these sections and one additional section - 354D (stalking) - on June 15 last year.

Charges should also be framed against the former assistant secretary of the Federation, Vinod Tomar, under Section 506, the court said.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Priyanka Rajpoot said the charges will be framed against Mr Singh for sexually harassing five wrestlers and that he stands discharged in the allegations levelled by the sixth.

The six-time MP has been at the centre of a huge political storm since last year, when sexual harassment charges were levelled against him and protesters had hit the streets led by Olympic medallists Sakshee Malikkh and Bajrang Punia, as well as Commonwealth Games and Asian Games medallist Vinesh Phogat.

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