Congress seeks Maharashtra voter lists and polling footage from EC

The Congress party has requested the Election Commission of India to provide machine-readable, digital copies of the Maharashtra voter lists and video footage of the polling days in Maharashtra and Haryana within a week.

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This request was made by Pawan Khera, spokesperson of the party.

"We request you to provide us with the machine-readable, digital copy of the Maharashtra voter lists and video footage of the polling days of Maharashtra and Haryana within a week from the date of this letter. This has been a long-standing request which should be easy to comply with for the EC," said a letter, written to Ashwani Kumar Mohal, Secretary in the ECI, by a team of Congress leaders set up to coordinate with the poll panel on behalf of the party.