The Election Commission of India on Wednesday issued a terse note over the Congress questioning the veracity of the Haryana poll results, before meeting the party’s delegation inthe evening.

On Tuesday, Congress communications head and MP Jairam Ramesh had said: “We are not accepting the results because serious issues have been raised about the integrity of the counting process and the functioning of the EVMs in at least three districts — 12 to 14 constituencies (in Haryana).”

The EC responded on Wednesday in a reply to party president Mallikarjun Kharge granting an appointment to a Congress delegation.

The poll panel said: “Such an unprecedented statement as above in a generic sense, unheard in the rich democratic heritage of the country, is far from a legitimate part of free speech and expression and moves towards an undemocratic rejection of the will of the people expressed in accordance with the statutory and regulatory electoral framework, uniformly applied across all elections in the country, including J&K and Haryana.”