Ban on counting and results of Shri Aggarwal Samaj Samiti elections

Jaipur, 21 May (HS). The city civil court South, Mahanagar I has stayed the counting of votes of Shri Aggarwal Samaj Samiti. Along with this, the court has fixed the hearing of the case on May 22 and has also banned the declaration of election results. The court gave this order while conducting an interim hearing on the claim filed by Anand Gupta and others.

In the claim, advocate Deepak Chauhan told the court that the triennial elections of Shri Agarwal Seva Samiti were held on 19 May. The election committee had instructed all the candidates that during the election process, no candidate will campaign inside the polling hall and neither will the candidate be present at the polling place and ask the voters to vote in his favour. The claim said that during the voting, Shri Lakhdatar Group leader Chandraprakash Agarwal Bhadewala and other candidates interfered in the voting process and obstructed the fair conduct of the election process. During the voting, Chandraprakash Agarwal was present at the polling place as the election officer and his son Nitesh Agarwal was the candidate of ballot number 76 of Shri Lakhdatar Group.

Chandraprakash encouraged the voters to vote for the members of the group, due to which the interests of other candidates including the plaintiff were affected. Apart from this, the main work of Rajendra Aggarwal Mangodi Wala, Ramesh Narnauli, Rajkumar Taluka, Ajay Aggarwal, Vijay Goyal and Vishnu Aggarwal was to conduct fair elections, but they did not appoint any polling agent. In collusion with Chandraprakash Aggarwal, he violated the privacy of voters by recording in the polling room. The claim also alleged that Chandraprakash had fielded his son as a candidate in the elections and to make him win, fake voting was done in favor of the candidates of Shree Lakhdatar Group. Apart from this, he influenced the voters by wearing a fake card of the election officer. In such a situation, the release of election results should be stopped and re-polling should be conducted. While hearing the matter, the court has banned the counting of votes and declaration of results.