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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Did Naxals push voters to press NOTA? -Soumittra S Bose

Did Naxals push voters to press NOTA? -Soumittra S Bose

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published Published on May 19, 2014   modified Modified on May 19, 2014
-The Times of India
 

NAGPUR: The voting figures available after elections show an extensive use of 'None of the above' (NOTA) option in most Naxal-affected Lok Sabha constituencies like Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, Bastar and Kanker in Chhattisgarh and Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh.

The wide use of NOTA has led to suspicions that Naxals may have prompted voters to go for it given that they had called for a boycott of polls. In all, 24,488 voters exercised NOTA in Gadchiroli, the highest figure among 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra. Bastar in Chhattisgarh saw NOTA being used by 38,772 voters. In Adilabad, the number stood at 17,084.

IG police, Gadchiroli, Ravindra Kadam said that the Naxal role behind the rampant use of NOTA cannot be ruled out. "We need to closely scrutinize the booth-wise voting pattern before coming to any conclusion," he said. "It is likely that Naxals may have prompted the villagers in their meetings to go in for the last button in the EVM in case they thought the candidates had not done justice to them or even visited their hamlets," he said. "Though there is no evidence at present to show that NOTA was used due to Naxal threat, we need to look into the possibility," Rajnandgaon SP Sanjeev Shukla said.

NOTA found 32,384 takers in Rajnandgaon. In Gadchiroli-Chimur, the use of NOTA was highest in Aheri assembly constituency (7,544).


The Times of India, 19 May, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Home/Lok-Sabha-Elections-2014/News/Did-Naxals-push-voters-to-press-NOTA/articleshow/35319679.cms


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