Imphal, April 26 : The CPI and the Manipur Peoples Party have sent representatives to New Delhi to petition the Election Commission with a plea for re-election.

Polls were held for the Manipur Inner seat on Wednesday amid allegations by these two parties about rampant rigging by the Congress.

A four-member MPP team, led by L. Chandramani Singh, left Imphal this afternoon to take up the issue of alleged rigging by the Congress in 11 booths in Imphal East with the Election Commission.

The MPP team also includes Thounaojam Chaoba Singh, the party candidate for the Inner seat, besides its MLAs Okram Joy Singh and L. Ibohalbi Singh.

“We will ask for help from NDA leaders for re-election at 11 booths in Andro. They will help us move the poll panel,” Chandramani Singh told this correspondent before leaving Imphal.

On the eve of the visit of a two-member team of the Left and Democratic Co-ordination Committee to Delhi, more than a hundred CPI workers today staged a sit-in at the Rising Athletics Union ground at Khurai in Imphal East demanding repolling in 16 booths.

The CPI state secretary, Langol Iboyaima, said the party candidate in the Inner seat Moirangthem Nara Singh and the CPM state secretary and co-convenor of the co-ordination committee, Ksh. Santa, would be leaving Imphal tomorrow for New Delhi.

The committee, comprising the CPI, CPM, RSP, Forward Bloc and the Janata Dal (Secular), will approach the Election Commission for repoll in the 11 Andro booths and in five others, three of which are in Thoubal Assembly constituency and one each in Patsoi Assembly segment and Khundrakpam Assembly constituency.