Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 23: Denouncing the statement of NC leader, Dr. Farooq Abdullah terming the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) as chour (thief), machine, State BJP observed that apprehending their defeat in the ensuing elections, the inner desperation of NC leaders is coming out. The BJP said that not only NC but Congress leaders too are raising fingers on EVMs.
Commenting upon the misinformation campaign launched by these two parties about the EVMs, BJP State spokesperson, Balbir Ram Rattan said that 2014 elections were conducted under the stewardship of Dr. Manmohan Singh, who was PM of the country and it was strange that after five years the Congressmen and their fellow travelers are now indulging in highly controversial utterances to malign the Indian democracy so much so, the functioning of the EVM at international level.
He also reminded Dr. Abdullah that it was the same EVM which elected him to Lok Sabha with just 7 pc votes polled.
Balbir said that the objective is obvious to belittle the functioning of the Election Commission itself by these parties in league with outside forces. What has been happening in J&K, especially in the troubled Valley, is the result of the wrongs of the leaders of NC and Congress, who ruled this State over the decades and being power hungry, fiddled with democratic process to the level of changing the ballot boxes and resorting to bogus polling. Even they were rejecting the nomination papers of their adversaries and even changing the ballot boxes.
Balbir said that in our State, it was actually NC, which started malpractices to rig polls for their own suitability. Citing the instance of 1951, he said that the Constituent Assembly formulated then witnessed election in a hush hush manner. The process of election was so much ridiculous can be judged from the fact that under the leadership of Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, the entire House of 75 members was packed with one party alone. The only then opposition party, the Praja Parishad, led by Pt. Prem Nath Dogra, was in the fray but it was forced to boycott the polls as 42 nomination papers out of 59 were rejected on frivolous grounds.
The BJP spokesperson further said that what happened in 1987 when NC and Congress came in power on the allegations of rigging is known to all as it resulted in birth of militancy in the State.
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