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NEW DELHI: Congress has initiated booth-wise analysis of votes nationally to check the polling trend at the bottom most rung to get a fix on what went horribly wrong in its calculations in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

In an urgent directive on Saturday, the party asked all its Lok Sabha candidates to send their Form 20 issued by the Election Commission to the party headquarters. The form lists booth-wise voting score of all candidates in a constituency. The deadline for sending the forms is June 7.

The analysis will be carried out by the party headquarters and look into past voting trends in all booths and expectations of key parties based on various poll-related factors.

Sources said the analysis would identify weaknesses at the ground level and help in devising correctives.

However, informed sources said the booth-wise analysis would establish the truth about claims from party units and candidates that divergence between the pre-poll expectation of the rival (read BJP) on a booth and its actual harvest was too big to be trusted.

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