Guwahati, April 27 -- In another instance of circulation of fake videos, the Chief Electoral Officer of Manipur on Saturday issued a clarification on a video shared by NCP-Sharad Pawar faction leader Jitendra Awhad on social media platform X, claiming that during polling in the state, women broke the EVM after they saw that after pressing any button, only BJP's election symbol lotus was being printed.

Awhad wrote in a post on X "In Manipur women broke the #EVM after they saw that after pressing any button they could see only lotus being printed A call for immediate intervention of Supreme Court Y does not it happen that #BJP workers get angry seeing some other party symbol being printed."

Rubbishing the claim, the Manipur CEO countered ...