Akhilesh Yadav corners Government over 'faulty' EVMs

Lucknow, May 29 Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday lashed out at the government for the alleged failure of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in the Monday by-surveys and requested to bring back the ballot paper system.

"There is growing mistrust in people. They don't trust the machines any longer. Also, what happened yesterday, how one machine, at that point two machines, at that point machines at a substantial scale ended up being defective. Accordingly, we request that the further elections ought to be directed on the ballot paper," said previous Uttar Pradesh chief minister.

He further demanded that people who were not ready to vote because of the broken machines ought to be permitted to vote once more.

"Ballot paper will strengthen the democracy and the trust of people. We also trust that the general population, who confronted the issue, will get the opportunity to vote once more," he included.

Yadav also blamed the state government for scheming against the partnership of Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal, which have mutually handled an applicant in the Kairana Lok Sabha by-survey, to influence the votes to support them by EVM altering.

"It is their system, that EVMs in the zones where the help for Samajwadi-RLD organization together was solid was flawed," he included.

He also talked about all other countries that hold election by means of tally paper and asked all political celebrated to be joined on this issue and discuss EVMs.

"Many democracies all over the the world use tally paper for decisions. I will encourage different gatherings to stand joined on this. This is a central issue for majority rules system, and these elections were a major eye-opener."

As the by-polls for four Lok Sabha seats and nine assembly constituencies were hung on Monday crosswise over 10 states, reports of broken EVMs emerged from many booths.

Be that as it may, the Election Commission disproved the reports of disappointment of EVMs and VVPATs