The Congress party on Tuesday said that the Election Commission needs to restore people’s trust in the process of voting.
Congress leader K.T.S. Tulsi “I think it’s a very serious matter because even the demonstration which was given by the Election Commission in Madhya Pradesh, it was noticed that whichever button you pressed the vote goes to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Only the Election Commission can restore the faith of the people in the EVMs and the democratic voting process,”
Calling the loss of faith on EVMs a matter of credibility, Congress leader P.C. Chacko “In India, we have been experimenting EVMs in the past, but never before such complaints in a large scale have come. Now after the Uttar Pradesh elections there is a sufficient ground for the people to believe that there has something wrong happened and therefore people have lost their faith in the EVMs,”
“It is up to the Election Commission to prove and say to the people that these machines are above tampering if it could not then the whole election process will be farced,” Chacko added.
Taking a jibe at the ruling BJP government and emphasising on the ballot paper scrutiny instead of electronic system a Congress leader Anand Sharma said on Monday said,
“We have all referred to the global best practices where overwhelming majority of democracies in the world are not using electronic voting system. The country from where the chip is coming, Japan is itself not using the EVMs. There were only eight countries in Europe which opted for electronic machines and six have fallen back including Germany where the Supreme Court has come out with the strong indictment,”
Congress also accused the centre of tampering with EVMs. He added that the BJP government has refused to give the money for a verifiable paper trail.
Meanwhile, NCP leader Majeed Memom said all leaders of the opposition party leaders are unanimously addressing the commission with regard to the lack of faith in EVM functioning.
