Losers Maya, Kejri say EVMs to blame

COMMON CAUSE BSP chief decides to move court over ‘tampering’, AAP claims its votes may have been transferred We will observe ‘black day’ at all the district headquarters in UP and other state headquarters on the 11th of every month

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati decided on Wednesday to move court over alleged tampering of voting machines in the recent state elections, an issue also raised by Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party boss Arvind Kejriwal.

Kejriwal also said that before 2014 Lok Sabha polls, some BJP leaders like LK Advani were not in favour of the electronic voting machines (EVM).

The move by Mayawati and the comments by Kejriwal evoked derision from the BJP and its ally SAD.

As the leaders of BSP and AAP raised their pitch in questioning the reliability of the EVMs, BJP said there are “some defects” in Mayawati and not in the EVMs.

BSP was decimated in the recent assembly polls in UP where it finished a distant third winning 19 seats in the 403 -member House while the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) making a debut in Punjab bagged 20 seats in the 117member Assembly.

Mayawati said the BSP has decided to observe a ‘black day’ every month against the “murder of democracy” by the BJP and charged that the saffron victory in UP smacked of “dishonesty” and “fraud”.

Kejriwal said EVM tampering may have led to AAP’s poor showing in Punjab, alleging it could be part of a conspiracy to keep the party out of power in the state.

On Tuesday, the Delhi state election commission chief trashed questions on the machines’ vulnerabilities and said EVM were “completely chief”.

The AAP chief claimed that around 20 to 25 per cent of its votes may have been “transferred” to the SAD-BJP coalition.

The poll result is “beyond

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