Congress’s Digvijay Singh requested the Election Commission to hand over VVPAT slips to voters
Bhopal (ANI): Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh is once again in the news ahead of the state assembly elections after he requested the Election Commission of India (ECI) to hand over VVPAT (security voter-verifiable paper audit) to voters. . Singh had written the same thing to the ECI on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, citing a report of tampering of EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) during testing of the machines in the state.
“Respected Election Commission, we have only one request: please give us the VVPAT ballot paper separately, which we will keep in a separate ballot box. Before counting, count the votes from any 10 ballot boxes and compare them with the results of the counting unit. .Yes” If the result of both is same then declare the result of calculation unit result. What problem does the Election Commission have in this? We request the Supreme Court to take this matter seriously and save democracy in the country.” Singh wrote in X.
The Congress leader also posted a YouTube link showing that VVPAT sheets of only one political party were received during EVM testing in Madhya Pradesh.
On the other hand, reacting to Singh’s tweet, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state secretary Rajneesh Agarwal criticized the Congress party, saying that whenever Congress loses badly in elections, they start blaming EVMs. Are.
“Whenever Congress loses badly in elections, it starts blaming EVMs. “Even after the charges were dismissed before the Supreme Court and ECI, Digvijay Singh continued to mislead the public and blame EVMs for Congress’s defeat.” Trust in Congress saved. “Congress is already starting efforts to make such allegations,” Aggarwal said.
He further claimed that BJP will win more than 150 out of 230 seats in the state in the upcoming assembly elections.
Voting will be held in Madhya Pradesh on November 17 and counting of votes will take place on December 3. (ANI)