The results of Bihar assembly elections are coming. Counting of votes is going on and the figures are constantly fluctuating. In the early trends in Bihar, the Bihar Grand Alliance was seen gaining, but the NDA gained momentum as soon as the counting of votes began in the second to third hour. In the trends till one o’clock in the afternoon, the NDA is running above the majority figure of 122. At the same time, the RJD-led grand alliance remains above 100 figures.
The trends are becoming clear, but it is believed that it will take a long time for the results to be clear. The big reason behind this is the covid-19 protocol. Actually, this time due to covid, more number of polling booths were kept for voting in Bihar elections. Only 1,000 voters were allowed to vote in each polling booth, due to which the number of EVMs also increased. According to the information, 63 percent more EVMs have been used in these elections.
Bihar Election Commission Chief Electoral Officer HR Srinivas said that this time the announcement of election results in Bihar will take more time than last time as the number of polling stations is 45 percent. According to the Election Commission, this time the number of polling stations was double but the number of tables was not increased. Earlier the number of polling stations was 72,723, which increased to 1,06,515 this time.
This time the number of voters at each polling station was fixed from 1,000 to 1,500, so as to ensure social distance. For this, the number of polling stations had to increase. Bihar’s Deputy Election Commissioner Bihar Chandra Bhushan Kumar said, “We hope that according to the process, the counting of votes will be finished tonight.”
He said that in the 2015 assembly elections, the counting of votes was done at 38 places, but this time, counting is being done at 55 places to ensure social distance. This time the number of tables in each hall has been reduced from 14 to seven. Bhushan said that counting of votes will be held in different constituencies in 19 to 51 rounds.
Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain, in charge of EVMs, while answering some questions regarding the reliability of EVMs, said that there can be no “tampering” of the machine and the Supreme Court has several times justified the use of this device.
