Meanwhile, Election Commission has postponed elections to 10 Rajya Sabha seats in three states, on Monday, due to reports of disturbances in EVMs. The election on these Rajya Sabha seats were to be held on June 8.

When will be held election on these seats again? This information has not been given by the Commission yet. Also there is no information about the reasons for the cancellation of the election. The states which were to hold elections included Goa, Gujarat and West Bengal.

Political secretary Ahmed Patel of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Union Minister Smriti Irani and Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien, the ten-members of Rajya Sabha term ends in August, in view of which the Election Commission were announced on June 8 to hold elections on these ten seats of three states. Of the 10 retired members, four are from Trinamool Congress while three of Congress, two from BJP and one from CPM.

The term of Congress MP Shantaram Naik from Goa ends on July 28, while the tenure of Ahmed Patel, Dilip Bhai Pandya and Smriti Irani from Gujarat till August 18. The term of six members of West Bengal will also end on August 18. These members include Derek O'Brien, Debbrat Bandopadhyay, Sukhndu Shekhar Rai and Dola Sen of Trinamool Congress. Congress's Pradeep Bhattacharya and CPM's Sitaram Yechury are also among them.

At the same time, the Election Commission has asked the CEOs of the five assembly elections recently to send the EVM machine in that states where elections were held in which are included Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur.

It is believed that this step by the Election Commission has been taken keeping in view the challenge given to EVM machines.

After the assembly elections in five states, the former CM of Uttar Pradesh and BSP President Mayawati had accused the EVM of disturbances. After this, Delhi's CM Arvind Kejriwal accused the EVM of disturbances. Not only this, the MLA of Aam Aadami Party, Saurabh Bharadwaj had shown a demo to hack EVMs in Delhi assembly.

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