Udit Raj doubts SC's involvement in poll rigging after court rejects Oppn’s VVPAT demand
Congress’ new recruit Dr Udit Raj has irked controversy on Wednesday by doubting on Supreme Court’s credibility by questioning if the top court was involved in rigging elections.
Raj, former BJP leader’s claims come days after the court turned down Opposition’s VVPAT demand.
सप्रीम कोर्ट क्यों नहीं चाहता की VVPAT की सारी पर्चियों को गिना जाए क्या वो भी धाँधली में शामिल है।चुनावी प्रक्रिया में जब लगभग तीन महीने से सारे सरकारी काम मंद पड़ा हुआ है तो गिनती में दो- तीन दिन लग जाए तो क्या फ़र्क़ पड़ता है @priyankagandhi @INCDelhi @RahulGandhi @PTI_News
— Dr. Udit Raj, MP (@Dr_Uditraj) May 22, 2019
The opposition has demanded to verify VVPAT slips of randomly selected polling stations before the counting of votes polled in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election begins on May 23.
Earlier, leaders of 21 political parties have demanded that if any discrepancy is found during VVPAT verification, then 100 per cent counting of that particular assembly segment’s VVPAT’s paper slips of all polling stations should be done and it should be compared with the EVM results.
In meeting with the EC on Tuesday, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said: "We told the EC that the VVPAT machines should be counted first and if there is any discrepancy, then all of them in that segment should be counted.”
Reportedly, multiple videos of EVMs being moved and stored from one unauthorised storage house to another surfaced on social media, triggering questions. The opposition claimed to tamper of voting machines as videos showed the movement of EVMs in UP and Bihar.
Squashing the Opposition’ claim, the poll panel said: “the EVMs were in proper security and protocol”.
Also read: EC sets up control room to monitor complaints relating to EVMs
First published: 22 May 2019, 12:20 IST