Thane: A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader, Sunil Khambe, threw ink on the EVM at a polling booth while voting for Maharashtra Assembly polls on Monday.
In a video of his act, Khambe was seen raising slogans of 'EVM nahi chalega' (EVM won't work) at a polling booth here.
Later, Khambe was dragged by the police, bundled into a police van and taken to a police station.
In another development, Maharashtra Congress on Monday claimed that the electronic voting machines (EVMs) were malfunctioning in several booths across the state.
"We have been sitting here in the Congress war room since 6 am and have received many complaints of EVMs not functioning properly in various polling booths, some of which were even changed after the complaint," said Avinash Pandey, Congress general secretary and the party's war room in-charge in Mumbai.
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