Delhi: NCP chief Sharad Pawar called a big meeting on Thursday to discuss EVMs, in which senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh, advocate Kapil Sibal, Left leader D Raja, Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav were present. . IT professionals and cryptographers were also invited to the meeting.

Opposition parties boycotted the election through remote EVM

After the meeting, Congress MP Digvijay Singh said that the Election Commission had called an all-party meeting regarding remote EVMs. Almost unanimously, there was disagreement (by parties) on holding elections through remote EVMs. The Election Commission wanted to give a demo, but that too was turned down. There is doubt about EVM in the country.

Election Commission changed its stand- Digvijay Singh

He further added that, ‘Earlier they used to say that it is a standalone machine but now they accept that it is not a standalone machine as the candidate’s name and symbol are entered through internet, they Used to say that it has one programmable chip, but now they admit that it has many programmable chips.’

Digvijay Singh said that, all the political parties present here agree that we need to ask this from the Election Commission and doubts should be removed from our mind.

EC will seek written answers to our questions – Sibal

Any machine in the world can be tampered with and no science or any expert can say that the machine is not tampered with and that is why electronic machines are not used for voting in any democratic country, Whenever there is a fault in the EVM, the vote goes to the BJP, this misconception is not limited to political parties, this misconception has spread among the public, so we have decided that we will go to the Election Commission and ask for written answers to our questions.

TMC did not attend the meeting

TMC did not attend the meeting of opposition leaders at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence in Delhi today. The meeting was called regarding the credibility of EVMs.

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Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 8: 22 PM IST