Digvijaya Singh, senior Congress leader and the party's candidate in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal, and his wife visited a strongroom at the central jail in the city last night.
22 opposition parties met the Election Commission on Tuesday and flagged the movement of voting machines in five states, after multiple videos surfaced.They also wanted the VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail) machines be considered first. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court had dismissed a request seeking 100 per cent matching of paper trail slips with the electronic voting machines during counting, calling it "nonsense"
In Chandigarh, Congress workers have been sitting outside strongrooms since Monday to ensure there was no movement of voting machines.
Representatives of political parties can join the guards in the 24-hour vigil or watch a CCTV feed from cameras monitoring the area.
Representatives of the candidates can also inspect the machines when they are taken to the counting room where each is put on a table.
Mumbai Congress chief Milind Deora wrote to the election body chief in Maharashtra on Tuesday, demanding that the vigilance around the storage rooms be increased and if possible, passwords of the CCTV cameras in the strongrooms be shared with the candidates so that they too can monitor the situation. Mr Deora is the party's candidate in Mumbai South.
The Congress's Mumbai North West candidate Sanjay Nirupam visited the counting centre in Goregaon east and monitored the safety and security status there.
"The next two nights before the counting day are critical. All party workers and the people must keep vigil to find out whether the BJP activists are indulging in any mischief," he said on Tuesday.
Shashi Tharoor, the Congress lawmaker from Thiruvananthapuram who is seeking re-election, is expected to visit the strongroom in the city today.
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