The Election Commission gave time to the Congress delgation within 30 minutes of their request today.

As per the ECI sources, on Congress’ delegation’s complaint, the commission replied, “The counting is conducted as per Rule 60 of the Conduct of Election Rules at the designated counting centres. This is happening in the presence of candidates, agents, microobservers and observers. There is no report from any counting centre otherwise, to the contrary. In Assembly elections, rounds pertain to that assembly constituency and hence are declared and reflected on the ECI results portal. For Parliamentary Constituencies, the counting happens in the assembly segments falling in the particular PC. Different Assembly constituency segments of the PC have different numbers of rounds and they run at different speeds. Hence a round of PC can’t be defined and displayed. It has always been so. The commission sent a written reply to the INC too, after explaining this to the delegation.”