{"id":33855,"date":"2019-04-19T17:27:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=33855"},"modified":"2019-04-19T17:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:57:33","slug":"video-of-alleged-evm-malfunction-during-2017-up-civic-polls-viral-as-that-of-lok-sabha-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-of-alleged-evm-malfunction-during-2017-up-civic-polls-viral-as-that-of-lok-sabha-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of alleged EVM malfunction during 2017 UP civic polls viral as that of Lok Sabha elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video widely shared on social media shows a man voting for the BSP but the EVM machine registers a vote for the BJP. It is being claimed that the incident occurred during the recent polling in Meerut. <em>&#8220;*\u0935\u094b\u091f \u0921\u093e\u0932 \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0939\u0948 \u092c\u0938\u092a\u093e \u0915\u094b \u092a\u0930 \u091c\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u092d\u093e\u091c\u092a\u093e \u0915\u094b Inquiry \u0915\u0930\u093e\u0913 \u0938\u092c\u0915\u094b \u0936\u0947\u092f\u0930 \u0915\u0930\u094b \u0938\u092c\u0915\u094b \u092b\u0948\u0932\u093e \u0926\u094b \u091c\u0932\u094d\u0926\u0940 \u091c\u0932\u094d\u0926\u0940 \u092f\u0947 \u0905\u092d\u0940 \u0915\u093e \u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u092e\u0947\u0930\u0920 \u0915\u0947 (Voting for BSP but it&#8217;s getting registered to BJP.\u00a0 An inquiry should be conducted, share this to everyone and make it viral. This recently happened in Meerut.),&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>is the caption used to share the clip.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/harvinder.singh.9028194\/videos\/2246297065461389\/\" data-width=\"350\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/harvinder.singh.9028194\/videos\/2246297065461389\/\"><p>*\u0935\u094b\u091f \u0921\u093e\u0932 \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0939\u0948 \u092c\u0938\u092a\u093e \u0915\u094b \u092a\u0930 \u091c\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u092d\u093e\u091c\u092a\u093e \u0915\u094b Inquiry \u0915\u0930\u093e\u0913 \u0938\u092c\u0915\u094b \u0936\u0947\u092f\u0930 \u0915\u0930\u094b \u0938\u092c\u0915\u094b \u092b\u0948\u0932\u093e \u0926\u094b \u091c\u0932\u094d\u0926\u0940 \u091c\u0932\u094d\u0926\u0940 \u092f\u0947 \u0905\u092d\u0940 \u0915\u093e \u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u092e\u0947\u0930\u0920 \u0915\u0947*<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/harvinder.singh.9028194\">Harvinder Rehal<\/a> on Wednesday, 17 April 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video is viral on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33870 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-12.39.21-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-12.39.21-PM-1.png 826w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-12.39.21-PM-1-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-12.39.21-PM-1-768x597.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>2017 video<\/h2>\n<p>Upon searching for the clip on Youtube, with the keywords &#8216;EVM registers vote for BJP&#8217;, the first link in the results was a 2017 broadcast by\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-af33Why-Fw&amp;t=22s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NDTV<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The man pressing the BSP&#8217;s button on the EVM was identical in both videos, which confirmed that <em>NDTV\u00a0<\/em>was reporting the same incident depicted in the viral video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33876 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/man-e1555667806461.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/man-e1555667806461.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/man-e1555667806461-300x126.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/man-e1555667806461-768x323.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/man-e1555667806461-1024x430.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/man-e1555667806461-990x416.jpeg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>NDTV,\u00a0<\/em>the alleged EVM malfunction took place during the 2017 Uttar Pradesh civic polls &#8211; <em>&#8220;Fresh allegations of Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs fraud favouring the BJP have emerged in Uttar Pradesh during the first phase of civic polls. Some voters have alleged the EVMs were registering votes only for the BJP irrespective of which button was pressed. Similar allegations had been made after the BJP&#8217;s massive victory in the UP assembly polls earlier this year. The Election Commission has denied any fraud back then and has said this time too that the allegations are wrong. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several other news organisation &#8211;\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/politics\/uttar-pradesh-civic-polls-evms-in-meerut-registering-votes-only-for-bjp-say-voters-protests-erupt-4223749.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firstpost<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/politics\/up-civic-polls-evms-that-register-vote-only-for-bjp-lead-to-protests-in-kanpur-1584803.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News18,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsclick.in\/press-any-evm-button-vote-goes-bjp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsclick<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>had also reported the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Alt News also found tweets from the time that shared the same video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u092f\u0942\u092a\u0940 \u0928\u093f\u0915\u093e\u092f \u091a\u0941\u0928\u093e\u0935: \u092e\u0947\u0930\u0920 (\u0930\u0936\u0940\u0926 \u0928\u0917\u0930)- \u0908\u0935\u0940\u090f\u092e \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u091f\u0928 \u0939\u093e\u0925\u0940 \u0915\u093e \u0926\u092c\u093e\u092f\u093e \u0924\u094b \u0932\u093e\u0907\u091f \u092d\u093e\u091c\u092a\u093e \u0935 \u0928\u094b\u091f\u093e \u0915\u0940 \u091c\u0932\u0940 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EVMTempering?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EVMTempering<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EVMSCam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EVMSCam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uNC70KIH7o\">pic.twitter.com\/uNC70KIH7o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bahujan4India (@Bahujan4India) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bahujan4India\/status\/933228620172091392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-viral-as-election-officers-exiting-a-sangh-office-after-fixing-lok-sabha-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 video<\/a> of Sangh workers conducting a meeting in a polling booth was viral in the context of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video widely shared on social media shows a man voting for the BSP but the EVM machine registers a vote for the BJP. 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