EC rejects AAP complaints of booth capturing in Amethi

In Delhi, a senior EC official said, “The observer (senior IAS officer Ramakrishna) visited booth numbers 37 and 38 (in Amethi's Mehmoodpur area) and found no evidence of capturing. The polling, though, has so far been recorded as low in the booths.”

The EC said AAP has also alleged rigging in 13 other booths in Amethi but sector magistrates who visited the booths found that no untoward incidents have taken place. 

AAP has also alleged that Congress candidate Rahul Gandhi is moving in Amethi in a cavalcade.

“The DM and SP have informed the Commission that while Gandhi was moving in one vehicle, the others were security and escort vehicles which he is entitled to as per norms,” the official said.

He was responding to the issues flagged by AAP through district authorities.

Amethi is among the 15 seats in Uttar Pradesh which went to polls today, where two-time sitting MP Rahul Gandhi is pitted against BJP's Smriti Irani and AAP's Kumar Vishwas.