Gujarat Congress has written a letter to the State Election Commission alleging that the ruling BJP has tried to manipulate the results of civic elections held today by tempering electronic voting machines.

"The ruling party (BJP) has tried to manipulate result of the elections by tempering EVMs by usage of laptops," Congress general secretary Girish Parmar said in the letter to Chief Election Commissioner K C Kapoor.

"Some technocrats along with laptops have been sent by the BJP party to polling booths to tamper with the EVMs by use of blue tooth technology," Parmar said in the letter.

Parmar requested that laptops or computers should be banned in the 100 metre area of polling booths. "Even after polling is completed, no computers or laptops should be permitted within or outside the premises where EVMs are stored," he said.

"We expect non-pre-judicial role of SEC in larger interest of upholding democratic value," Parmar said in the letter.

The election commission was of the view that the EVMs cannot be tempered with by using blue tooth technology but agreed that it will look in the complaint of the opposition party.

"We will look into the complaint of the Congress party," SEC secretary P S Shah said.