By Abdul Bari Masoud, MM News,
New Delhi: After Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam, who lost the election from Mumbai North seat, leveling the charges of electronic voting machines (EVMs) manipulation, Dalit outfit Bahujan Mukit Party (BMP) also raised the ante against the Election Commission of India alleging that it played partisan role in the general elections. BMP pronounced on Wednesday that it won’t accept the election results as it was not a ‘free and fair elections”. BMP leaders said they will launch nation-wide stir and file a petition in the Supreme Court against Election Commission.
Addressing the media here after deliberating upon the election results for two days at the party executive council meeting, party patron and BAMCEF president Waman Meshram said election machinery has played partisan role and electronic voting machines (EVMs) were manipulated on mass level at many places. “We have documentary evidence to show that the election machinery did not carry its duties in unpartisan manner and EVMs found faulty at many places”, he added. Quoting Rashtriya Janta Dal leader Laloo Parsad Yadav’s comments that exist polls predictions were meant to influence counting of votes, he said even BJP leaders L K Advani, Arun Shourie and Subramanian Swamy had also raised serious doubts over the EVMs after the 2009 elections and they had filed a petition in the Supreme Court. Meshram said on their petition, the apex court has directed the EC to attach verification receipt with the machines but it has attached verification receipt only at 20,000 polling booths as a pilot project. Citing many examples of EVM manipulation, he said in Banaras, where Narnedra Modi was in the fray, out of total 1,532,438 votes 55 per cent polling was recorded. According to the poll percentage, the total polled votes should be around 842, 840 but after counting it showed 10, 30,685 votes. Similarly, he said Gujarat minister Patel announced before the elections that Modi will win by a margin over five lakh votes in Vadodra, and he won the election by that predicted margin as it is clear-cut case of manipulation. He also charged the Maharashtra election machinery with helping Congress candidates and obstructing BMP candidates. Citing the example of Nanded seat, where former chief Minister of the state Ashok Chavan was in the contest, he said at many booths, election officers posted the candidates list with cancelled mark on BMP candidate.
Another Party leader Arun Kumar Yadav said a BJP worker Shrivastav was red-handed caught with EVM in Banaras but no action was taken against by the election commission. He said EVMs can be easily manipulated as shown by TV9 channel on Wednesday. The Channel showed a demonstration by an RTI activist that EVMs are not foolproof from tampering. He said the party is getting complaints from many part of the country that election machinery overlooked or supported BJP candidates in the elections. In Madhya Pradesh, party leaders have alleged that thousands of tribal voters were deprived of their franchise right by deleting their name from the voter list and election campaign was run on the religious line by distributing ‘grain of rice’ with voter slips but election has taken no action against the ruling party.
Meshram said the party has decided that it will file a PIL against these malpractices and EVMs and also launch a movement in the country. It is to be mentioned here that BMP has fielded around 419 candidates across the country mostly in Maharashtra, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and MP but none of its candidate won the election.
What a zoke
Its not a joke election commision should take hard action against them.
The honorable supreme court must take it seriously and fond the truth
Manipulation in EVM is very serious . Election commission of India may take appropriate action Soon
actually people are fool…every one know EVM are tamparable…but no one speak….!!!
the election results were very shocking thats why something has to be done agaiost EVM machine…
evm are tamparable. so that many countries stopped using evm. but Indians only believing in it. people are fool. they should see evidences and protest against this.
It is shameful for E.C .inspite of ample evidence, could not realise the mechanical error or manipulated system of voting.
It is only Hon ‘ble Apex Court can resolve the problem occured during poll
it is against the free will of the people AND our democracy .u.s.a has already banned it. the country which is technically more sound than any other countries of world. if the super computer of u.s.a can be hacked by china from its own land, why it is not possible …in case of indias E.V.M????
EVM MECHINE IS NOTHING BUT THE KILLER OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY & REPUBLIC.