'Ind candidate's claim of getting zero votes is incorrect'

The State Election Commission of Maharashtra (SECM) today said that independent candidate Shrikant Shirsat's claim of receiving zero votes in the booth where he himself had cast ballot during the Mumbai civic polls was incorrect.
Shirsat had questioned the reliability of electronic voting machines, saying that he should have got at least one vote -- his own -- in booth 29 in suburban Saki Naka area.
A source in the SECM said that Shirsat, who contested the February 2017 election to Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai from ward number 164, Saki Naka, actually got 11 votes from booth number 29 where he himself had voted, and not zero.

Shirsat's complaint with the SECM did not mention that he got zero votes in this booth, the SECM official said.
Shirsat had said that though he secured 44 votes in all, in booth number 29, where he himself cast vote, he got zero votes.
He claimed that his family members and his neighbours too had voted for him at this booth.