Eleven assembly poll candidates, including NCP (SP)’s Yugendra Pawar, applied to the district administration for verification of the microcontrollers in the EVM used in their constituencies. Yugendra Pawar filed an application to verify the microcontrollers in 19 EVMs. He has paid ₹8.96 lakh for the process. Similar requests were made by NCP’s Prashant Jagtap and Congress’s Ramesh Bagwe.