Complaint of election rigging in Patna High Court. Jagran Archive
Jagran correspondent, Ara. Bihar Chunav 2025: Allegations of rigging have been made in the Agiaon (SC) assembly elections of Bhojpur district. CPI-ML (CPI-ML) candidate Shivprakash Ranjan has approached the Patna High Court against irregularities and rigging.
A petition was filed through advocate Amit Kumar on Monday, which has been accepted by the court. Shivprakash Ranjan said that widespread irregularities were committed during the elections.
Due to this, Shivprakash Ranjan had to face defeat by a small margin of just 95 votes. During the revision of electoral rolls, names of a large number of voters were deliberately deleted.
Also, the ruling coalition influenced voters through direct cash transfer schemes just before voting, which is a violation of the Model Code of Conduct.
It has also been said that 175 postal ballots were declared invalid without any solid reason. He termed the validity of the entire election process in doubt.
Said that the democratic dignity of free and fair elections has been hurt. Now an appeal has been made to the High Court for justice.
Grand alliance and NDA candidates have also gone to court
It is noteworthy that many candidates of the Grand Alliance have filed petitions in the High Court alleging rigging in the elections. On December 27, Congress had filed a petition in the court demanding cancellation of the elections.
Congress leaders and former MLAs Rishi Mishra, Praveen Kushwaha, Amit Tunna have approached the court against the election results.
Pawan Kumar Jaiswal, the BJP candidate from NDA, has also filed a petition. He lost the election from Dhaka seat by a margin of 178 votes.
He had accused RJD of fake voting. He accused him of voting in the name of 1444 fake voters.