PANJIM: The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) has urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to stop ballot paper voting and to allow government staff to cast their votes at respective Mamlatdar offices through EVMs.
MGP Legislator Sudin Dhavalikar on Thursday told reporters that there were several complaints of intimidation of government staff deployed for election duty to cast their ballot paper in favour of a particular political party.
He suggested that the Election Commission should stop postal ballot paper and instead make available EVMs of every Assembly Constituency at the Taluka Mamlatdar office to allow these government workers to go and vote there 48 hours prior to counting of votes.
Dhavalikar claimed that Marcaim is the only Constituency where no government staff was intimidated.
Dhavalikar also warned the BJP government not to recruit youth in government service when the Elections Model Code of Conduct is in force.
The former deputy chief minister said that people of Goa have voted for parivartan and will defeat the BJP and defectors in the Assembly elections.
Dispelling the rumours that the MGP will snap its pre-poll alliance with the TMC after counting of votes, Dhavalikar said that leaders of both the parties will sit together and decide their next political strategy.
He also claimed that political strategist Prashant Kishor and his I-PAC team gave daily survey reports of alliance candidates to him.
To a question, he clarified that he has not accepted Health Minister Vishwajit Rane’s leadership and that he had only said that Rane will be BJP’s winning candidate in the election.
