EC storing voting machines at Asia's biggest potato market
The stalls at Asia's biggest wholesale market of potatoes in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad have been taken over by the Election Commission of India to store Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). The EVMs will be kept in the shops inside the 'mandi', and the area has been cordoned off till March 11 with CISF deployed to guard them.
The biggest wholesale market of potatoes in Asia, located in Farrukhabad, wore a deserted look, as the Election Commission has taken over its stalls to store Electronic Voting Machines (EVM).Farmers have been replaced by Election Commission employees and sacks containing potatoes replaced by EVMs.According to Potato Farmers' Association chairman Satish Verma, the local administration asked them to vacate the premises on February 17. 