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Podcast: News and Views
Episode: Citing ‘Spike’ After 5 pm, Cong Alleges Booth Capture in Telangana
Description: The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC), a state unit of the Congress party, wrote to the Election Commission on Wednesday, 1 May, raising concern over the percentage of votes polled during the Lok Sabha elections after 5 pm.
The letter, written by TPCC chairperson Marri Shashidhar Reddy, says there was an “unusual increase in the percentage of polling after 5 pm” on 11 April 2019, polling day, in 17 parliamentary constituencies in Telangana.
Three significant observations are made in the letter:
The average percentage of votes polled till 5 pm in the 17 constituencies was 59.08%.
The average percentage of vote...