Maharashtra Assembly elections: Sharad Pawar’s NCP worker attacked, polling booth vandalized in Maharashtra’s Parli

A polling booth was vandalized and a worker of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) was attacked on Wednesday in Parli assembly constituency, where minister Dhananjay Munde of the Ajit Pawar-led NCP is seeking re-election, an official said.

Madhav Jadhav, one of the local leaders of the Sharad Pawar-led party, was attacked in the Bank Colony area of ​​Parli town and the video of the attack went viral on social media, following which a polling booth at Ghatnandur in the constituency was vandalized, an official said.

Jadhav hails from Ghatnandur.

Some people entered the polling booth in Ghatnandur, threw the EVM on the ground and damaged the furniture in the booth, the official said.

Bee Collector Avinash Pathak said that after some people tried to damage the EVMs in Ghatnandur, the administration replaced the EVMs and the voting resumed.

He said that the data of votes cast in previous EVMs is safe in the control units and will be included during counting.

“We are taking strict action against those who try to damage EVMs,” he said.

NCP (SP) candidate from Parli assembly constituency Rajesaheb Deshmukh alleged that a CCTV camera was disabled at a polling booth at Dharmapuri in the constituency.

In a viral video, a visibly disturbed Deshmukh is seen talking to polling staff about the “disconnected” cable of a CCTV camera and demanding to know who did it.

Deshmukh later told reporters that CCTV had been rendered dysfunctional.

“People from minority communities are not allowed to come to the polls to vote. Someone else presses the button (on the EVM). If this is the case, why do we need elections? “It seems the administration is just completing a formality,” he said.

Polling in all 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra started at 7 am and will end at 6 pm.