EVMs are 100 % full proof: EC rubbishes opposition charge ahead of poll announcement

PTC News Desk: Ahead of the poll dates announcement for Jharkhand and Maharashtra assembly, Election Commission has rubbished the opposition claims of EVM tampering. As opposition parties once again raised the bogey of EVM manipulation Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday said that the public has answered the questions by participating in voting.

Kumar said "The public answers questions by participating in the voting. As far as the EVMs are concerned, they are 100 per cent foolproof. If they raise questions today again, we will tell them again." Earlier, Congress leader Rashid Alvi claimed that EVM's could be manipulated citing the example of Israel hacking pagers of militant outfit Hezbollah.

"In Maharashtra, the opposition should put pressure to insist on voting by paper ballot and not EVMs. Otherwise, in Maharashtra, BJP govt and EC can do anything. If Israel can kill people by use of pagers and walkie-talkies, then where does EVM stand? The PM has very good relations with Israel. Israel is an expert in such things. EVM ka bada khel kahin bhi ho sakta hai aur uske liye BJP chunav se pehle yeh sab khel kar leti hai," Rashid Alvi said.

Citing the India-Israel relations, Alvi said that "Prime Minister Narendra Modi has very good relations with Israel. If Israel could kill people by rigging their pagers, anything could happen." Congress leader Pawan Khera also said that the party had sent a list of 20 seats in which the candidates had submitted their written and verbal complaints over the EVM counting votes in the Haryana Assembly elections.

Besides congress, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) also slammed election commission and said that the organization is not acting independently and is under constant pressure from BJP.