{"id":65771,"date":"2019-04-29T00:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T19:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=65771"},"modified":"2019-04-29T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T19:18:28","slug":"pario-seeks-re-poll-in-rakso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/04\/29\/pario-seeks-re-poll-in-rakso\/","title":{"rendered":"Pario seeks re-poll in Rakso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>PALIN, Apr 28:<\/strong> The Indian National Congress (INC) candidate for the Palin assembly constituency in Kra Daadi district, Takam Pario, has submitted a petition to the returning officer (RO), urging him to recommend re-poll at the Rakso polling station, alleging that &#8220;hired goons of the JD (U)&#8221; indulged in violence, voter intimidation and booth capturing there.<br \/>\nIn his petition, which was submitted on 27 April, Pario alleged that JD (U) supporters, &#8220;armed with lethal weapons and unlicensed firearms,&#8221; not only stopped more than 150 registered voters at the entry point in 1 Kilometre area from entering the polling booth but also assaulted them, including women and children.<br \/>\nPario said the electors, who had been stopped on the evening of 26 April, were never allowed to reach the polling booth.<br \/>\n&#8220;The entire main approach road from Lumba to Rakso was sealed by JD (U) workers,&#8221; he alleged. &#8220;We were assaulted, warned and intimidated.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe INC candidate stated that despite promises, the RO could not provide any security arrangement for the voters in order for them to reach the polling booth.<br \/>\n&#8220;We waited till this morning, but you could not provide security to the voters to reach the destination,&#8221; Pario alleged.<br \/>\n&#8220;By the time you and the DIG tried to visit and reach Rakso polling station, the booths had already been captured. The administration totally failed to protect the voters, giving a free hand to JD (U) workers to capture the booth,&#8221; alleged Pario, terming it &#8220;murder of democracy.&#8221;<br \/>\nPario also alleged that the INC&#8217;s polling agents were stopped from reaching the polling station, and were threatened with dire consequences, adding that even his car was stoned, and that petrol was poured on it &#8220;with the intention to kill me.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Thereafter, I returned to my own village, leaving the registered Congress voters in the middle of the road between Rakso and Lumba RWD road,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALIN, Apr 28: The Indian National Congress (INC) candidate for the Palin assembly constituency in Kra Daadi district, Takam Pario, has submitted a petition to the returning officer (RO), urging him to recommend re-poll at the Rakso polling station, alleging that &#8220;hired goons of the JD (U)&#8221; indulged in violence, voter intimidation and booth capturing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}