EVM row: AAP asks EC to form all-party panel
Leaders, workers protest outside poll body’s office
The AAP, which held a protest against the alleged tampering of electronic voting machines (EVMs) outside the Election Commission’s office on Thursday, demanded that the poll body should allow the technical inspection of the EVMs by the expert panels of various political parties to see if they can be hacked or not. In a memorandum submitted to the EC, the party also demanded that all elections should be conducted only on VVPAT enabled machines so that paper trail guarantees integrity of the electoral process.
“All the future elections should be conducted only on VVPAT enabled machines. In randomly picked 25 per cent of total polling booths in a constituency, EVM counting results must be tallied with the VVPAT slips to check the accuracy of the EVMs,” the AAP’s memorandum of demands said.
Hundreds of AAP activists on Thursday protested outside the Election Commission headquarters against alleged tampering of EVMs during the recent state polls.
The demonstrators, who included several AAP legislators, raised slogans against the poll panel and carried placards calling for an end to alleged tampering of the electronic voting machines.
AAP leader and Delhi Minister Gopal Rai said, “Voices have been raised in Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand against EVM tampering.
“Our MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj has shown that EVMs can be easily hacked,” he said.
Mr Rai demanded that the doubts regarding the EVMs should be resolved.