The Election Commission on Tuesday told Congress leader Jairam Ramesh that there was nothing on record to substantiate his “ill-founded allegation” of slowdown in updating of Haryana poll results.
The poll panel also dubbed his allegations as an attempt to “surreptitiously give credence to irresponsible, unfounded and uncorroborated mala fide narratives”.
Earlier in the day, the Congress had raised with the Election Commission the issue of an “unexplained slowdown” in updating of results of Haryana elections on the poll watchdog’s website and urged it to direct officials to update accurate figures so that “false news and malicious narratives” can be countered immediately.
In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Ramesh said that between 9 and 11 am, there has been an “unexplained slowdown” in updating of results on the ECI’s website.