Excelsior Correspondent
New Delhi, Aug 20: Chief patron of National Panthers Party Prof Bhim Singh called on V.S. Sampath, the Chief Election Commissioner of India at Nirvachan Sadan, here and presented a protest letter demanding scrapping of the use of the EVMs for J&K Assembly polls in 2014.
The NPP leader told the CEC that the electorates in J&K has every reason to believe that EVMs being imported from Gujarat shall be manipulated and misused by the Prime Minister who himself hails from Gujarat. Prof. Singh argued with the CEC that use of EVMs has been scrapped in several European countries including in some States of the USA, Germany and other countries because the EVMs were found defective and manipulative.
The CEC defended the decision of the Election Commission of India in importing 15000 EVMs from Gujarat emphasizing that there are two EVM manufacturing companies in India and none of them is based in Gujarat and these EVMs have been made by those companies. He, however, assured Prof. Singh that the Election Commission of India will reply to the queries raised by NPP.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel