Congress alleges 'misleading trends' on ECI website of Haryana vote counting

Jairam Ramesh Congress General Secretary incharge of Communications has claimed that the Election Commissions website is experiencing a slowdown in publishing the most recent trends in the vote counting for the Haryana Assembly election ANI reportedHe questioned whether the BJP is trying to build pressure on the administration by sharing an outdated and misleading countWe are filing a memorandum in the next 57 minutes We are lodging a complaint We hope that the EC will answer our questions The results of 1011 rounds are already out but only 45 rounds have been updated on the EC website This is a tactic to pressure the Administration Ramesh told ANIThere is no need to be disheartened The game is not over Mind games are being played We will not deter there is no need to be disheartened We are going to get the mandate Congress is going to form the government he addedEarlier in the day he said in a post on X Like the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana we are again witnessing slowing down of uploading uptodate trends on the ECI website Is the BJP trying to build pressure on administration by sharing outdated and misleading trends ECISVEEPmdash Jairam Ramesh Jairam_Ramesh October 8 2024According to ANI Ramesh has also written to the Election Commission calling to issue immediate directions to officials to update the website with true and accurate figuresOver the last two hours between 911 am there has been an unexplained slowdown in updating of results on the ECIs websiteAs you can imagine this allows badfaith actors to spin narratives that undermine the process You can see examples of it already playing out on social media Our fear is also that such narratives can then be used by these mala fide actors to influence processes where counting is still underway ie in most of the counting centres he wrote in the letterWe request you to issue immediate directions to your officials to update the website with true and accurate figures so that false news and malicious narratives can be countered immediately he addedAs per the trends released at 12 noon by the Election Commission the BJP was leading on 49 seats while the Congress led on 35 seats The Indian National Lok Dal INLD and Bahujan Samaj Party BSP were seen to be leading with one seat each while Independents and smaller parties were leading in four seats ANI reportedThe BJP is on track to win the State Assembly election three times in a row despite exit polls predicting that the Congress will win the raceAccording to the latest update from the Election Commission Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini led from the Ladwa constituency As of 12 noon Saini led with 32708 votes over Congress Mewa SinghBhupinder Singh Hooda was seen leading from the Garhi SamplaKiloi seat with 56875 votes over his nearest competitor Manju from the BJP partyWith inputs from ANI