{"id":37514,"date":"2019-05-30T19:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=37514"},"modified":"2019-05-30T19:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:16:55","slug":"evms-found-inside-hotel-room-video-shot-before-2018-mp-assembly-election-shared-as-recent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/evms-found-inside-hotel-room-video-shot-before-2018-mp-assembly-election-shared-as-recent\/","title":{"rendered":"EVMs found inside hotel room? Video shot before 2018 MP assembly election shared as recent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u092e\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0926\u093f\u0916\u093e\u092f\u0947\u0917\u093e, \u0906\u092a \u0906\u0917\u0947 \u092c\u095d\u093e\u0907\u092f\u0947 ! \u0905\u0928\u0941\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0939\u0948, \u0926\u0947\u0936\u0939\u093f\u0924 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f !\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"_5afx\"><em><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">ElectionCommission\u00a0<\/span>(Media wont show you this, you take this forward in the interest of the nation! (translation)<\/em><\/span><span class=\"_5afx\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5afx\">Along with the above message, a video has been posted on Facebook. The video shows a man being questioned inside a hotel room, in which Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are placed. The person is told that EVMs cannot be placed here and that he ought to be at the polling booth. Further, he is reprimanded by the interrogator for staying at a hotel, when he should have been at the facility provided by the Election Commission. Later, the video shows EVMs being shifted from the hotel room into a vehicle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsFYI.in\/videos\/1072813333106332\/\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/NewsFYI.in\/videos\/1072813333106332\/\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u092e\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0926\u093f\u0916\u093e\u092f\u0947\u0917\u093e, \u0906\u092a \u0906\u0917\u0947 \u092c\u095d\u093e\u0907\u092f\u0947 ! \u0905\u0928\u0941\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0939\u0948, \u0926\u0947\u0936\u0939\u093f\u0924 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f ! #ElectionCommission<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsFYI.in\/\">News FYI Hindi<\/a> on Monday, 27 May 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The above video is 4:14 minutes long and has been posted by a page <em>News FYI Hindi.\u00a0<\/em>The video has been viewed over 176,000 times already, and shared in excess of 12,000. The following text is superimposed on the video:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;\u0910\u0938\u093e \u0916\u0947\u0932\u093e \u0917\u092f\u093e \u091a\u0941\u0928\u093e\u0935 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0915\u093e \u0917\u0928\u094d\u0926\u093e \u0916\u0947\u0932 ? \u092e\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0926\u093f\u0916\u093e\u092f\u0947\u0917\u093e, \u0906\u092a \u0906\u0917\u0947 \u092c\u095d\u093e\u0907\u092f\u0947&#8217; (Is this how the dirty EVM game was played? Media wont show, you take this forward- translation).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Video pertains to MP assembly election of 2018<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The video in question has been shared now on social media, after the Lok Sabha election has concluded. This misleads social media users into believing that the video depicts a recent event related to the general election. However, this is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>The video represents a sting operation which was conducted by a journalist during the Madhya Pradesh assembly election of December 2018. The incident had taken place at a hotel in Shujalpur constituency in Shajapur district of MP. According to an article by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelallantop.com\/jhamajham\/election-commission-officials-caught-staying-with-evms-in-a-hotel-in-poll-bound-shajapur-district-on-eve-of-polling-in-madhya-pradesh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em> The LallanTop<\/em><\/a>, it was shot by a<em> India Today<\/em> stringer named Manoj Purohit. The incident had been reported by several news organisations including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newslaundry.com\/2018\/12\/01\/madhya-pradesh-ec-officials-evm-hotel-viral-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Newslaundry<\/em><\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/punemirror.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/day-before-mp-polls-officer-on-duty-took-evms-to-hotel\/articleshow\/66887398.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em> Pune Mirror<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/ec_mp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"938\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/ec_mp.jpg 938w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/ec_mp-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/ec_mp-768x443.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Madhya Pradesh had taken cognizance of the incident and had issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/eci.gov.in\/files\/file\/9163-press-note-issued-by-chief-electoral-officer-of-madhya-pradesh-on-the-incident-in-shajapur-mp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press note<\/a> on December 1, acknowledging that the instructions of the EC were violated by the said officials, and that appropriate action had been taken against them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/pressnoteECI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/pressnoteECI.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/pressnoteECI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/pressnoteECI-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A video pertaining to the assembly election of 2018 in Madhya Pradesh, was shared with the implication that this is a recent incident. After the Lok Sabha election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-of-alleged-evm-malfunction-during-2017-up-civic-polls-viral-as-that-of-lok-sabha-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several claims<\/a> have floated on social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/2018-mp-election-video-viral-as-bjp-and-election-commission-illegally-hoarding-evms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raising doubts<\/a> over Electronic Voting Machines. In most cases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/images-of-past-protests-circulated-as-recent-protests-against-evms-after-2019-ls-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">old pictures<\/a> and\/or videos are recirculated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u092e\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0926\u093f\u0916\u093e\u092f\u0947\u0917\u093e, \u0906\u092a \u0906\u0917\u0947 \u092c\u095d\u093e\u0907\u092f\u0947 ! \u0905\u0928\u0941\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0939\u0948, \u0926\u0947\u0936\u0939\u093f\u0924 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f !\u00a0#ElectionCommission\u00a0(Media wont show you this, you take this forward in the interest of the nation! (translation). Along with the above message, a video has been posted on Facebook. 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