BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday bated for the use of ballot papers in the mayoral polls and corporators of municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh and said her party will contest the election with full vigour. ”Voting for the municipal corporations and mayoral polls should be conducted using ballot papers, and not through EVMs (electronic voting machines). The elections should be free and fair. This is our demand to the government and officials concerned,” she told reporters here. The Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission had on Sunday announced the urban local body polls in two phases, on May 4 and 11, three months after the high court quashed the government’s draft notification providing OBC reservation in the elections.
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