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BJP slams Opposition for doubting EVMs, asks it to accept defeat with grace

A Commission official said the dissent notes and minority views would remain part of records of the poll panel

LokSabha Elections 2019:The BJP Tuesday censured resistance groups for scrutinizing the believability of Electronic Voting Machines and requested that they acknowledge their thrashing with elegance if the general population vote Prime Minister Narendra Modi to control once more.

Gathering pioneer and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad ripped into the restriction, saying EVMs were fine when its pioneers like Mamata Banerjee, N Chandrababu Naidu and Amarinder Singh win decisions and come to control, yet the machines turn questionable when it shows up Modi will return to control.

“EVM is great when Mamata Banerjee turned out to be West Bengal boss pastor twice and Amarinder Singh moved toward becoming Punjab boss priest. In the event that they win, EVM is great. In any case, when there is desire that we will win since individuals of this nation need Narendra Modi to be executive once more, at that point EVM is temperamental,” Ravi Shankar Prasad said

“The BJP denounces their (resistance) lead and will advise submissively to acknowledge their annihilation with effortlessness,” he said.

BJP representative G V L Narasimha Rao said resistance groups are urgently looking for a justification for their looming monstrous annihilation and their abrupt question is “obvious and unimaginary”.

“When they win, as they did in state surveys as of late, EVMs are reliable. Be that as it may, when they lose, they become flawed. Their specific trust in the EVMs is dishonest and naughty.

“Their obtrusive exertion at rubbishing the anticipated star BJP command is an affront to the Indian vote based system. The Opposition parties look extremely little not in their thrashing, yet in their condemnable direct,” he said.

Pioneers of upwards of 22 resistance groups met the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday and requested check of VVPAT slips of arbitrarily chose surveying stations before the including of the votes surveyed in the simply finished up Lok Sabha race starts on May 23.

They likewise requested that if any disparity is found amid VVPAT check, 100 percent tallying of the paper slips of VVPATs of all surveying stations in a specific Assembly portion ought to be done and contrasted and the electronic casting a ballot machine (EVM) results.

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SC rejects PIL for 100% matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs on May 23

A larger bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has already dealt with the matter and passed an order, said a vacation bench

LokSabha Elections 2019:The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a PIL looking for 100 percent coordinating of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) amid the tallying of votes on May 23 for Lok Sabha surveys.

A bigger seat headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has just managed the issue and passed a request, said an excursion seat involving judges Arun Mishra and M R Shah and wouldn’t engage the supplication documented by a Chennai-based association ‘Tech 4 All’.

“The CJI had managed this issue. For what reason are you bringing chance under the steady gaze of a two-judge excursion seat. We won’t list any such case for pressing hearing,” it said.

“We can’t supersede the CJI’s organization… This is drivel,” the seat said.

The zenith court prevented dire got notification from securing the issue as well as took the PIL on “board” and expelled it.

A three-judge seat headed by the CJI on May 7 had expelled a survey supplication recorded by 21 resistance pioneers, driven by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, looking for that irregular coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs be expanded to 50 percent.

The resistance heads had said that the present arrangement of 2 percent of irregular coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs was deficient and did not move certainty among the electorates.

Before this, the top court had on April 8 guided the Election Commission to build irregular coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs from one to five surveying corners for each gathering fragment in Lok Sabha surveys, saying it would give more noteworthy fulfillment to ideological groups as well as to the whole electorate.

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Matching VVPAT slips with EVMs: SC to hear 21 Oppn parties’ plea next week

Opposition leaders led by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has sought the review of the apex court’s order

Elections:The Supreme Court on Friday consented to hear one week from now an audit request documented by 21 Opposition pioneers looking for further increment in irregular coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs in the continuous general races.

The peak court had on April 8 guided the Election Commission to build arbitrary coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs in five surveying stalls for each gathering portion from one corner.

Restriction pioneers driven by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has looked for the audit of the summit court’s organization, saying the “increment from 1 to 5 is anything but a sensible number and does not prompt fulfillment wanted by this court”.

The request was referenced for dire hearing before a seat involving Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta.

Senior supporter Abhishek Manu Singhvi, showing up for applicants, told the seat that the audit request be recorded for hearing one week from now.

The seat acknowledged Singhvi’s accommodation and said the issue will be heard one week from now.

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Plea in SC for ensuring safety of EVMs after Lok Sabha elections

The plea said that as alleged it was possible to tamper with the EVMs in broad daylight during post poll situations

Elections:A request in the Supreme Court on Tuesday looked for bearing to the Election Commission to guarantee wellbeing and security of electronic casting a ballot machines (EVMs) after Lok Sabha surveys.

The request, documented by M Srinivasan, President of Tamil Nadu Annal Ambedkar Law Association, has alluded to news gives an account of anxieties of some resistance groups that EVMs might be altered even after the surveys.

The request, which may come in the mood for hearing one week from now, said that the Chief Election Commissioner be coordinated to guarantee that EVMs are not messed with amid the post surveys period.

“The main statutory and authoritative check accessible to ensure and save the trust in the EVMs was in the hands of Election Commission of India yet what is the ground the truth is the exceptionally unbiased working of Election Commission of India is in question,” it said.

The request said that as supposed it was conceivable to mess with the EVMs without trying to hide amid post survey circumstances since it was a dull period in which the machines have next to no entrance to external world but to a constrained managerial functionaries.

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Lok Sabha elections: 21 Opposition parties move SC against EVM machines

The parties have also sought that at least 50% of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail machines be tallied with the voting machines to avoid any discrepancy

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Somewhere around 21 restriction gatherings, including Indian National Congress and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu have moved the best court looking for better security standards to keep the altering of electronic casting a ballot machines.

The gatherings have additionally looked for that something like 50 percent of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail machines be counted with the casting a ballot machines to dodge any error. The gatherings have appro­ached the best court following a gathering of 15 non-BJP parties held at Sharad Pawar’s living arrangement in New Delhi in February.

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Cyber expert says 2014 polls rigged, EVMs hacked; EC stands by its machines

BJP described this explosive allegation as a ‘hacking horror show organised’ by the Congress
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A self-proclaimed Cyber expert said in London on Monday Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio helped the BJP to fix the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) utilized in the 2014 Lok Sabha decisions yet gave no evidence to his claims.

Syed Shuja, who wore a cover as he addressed Indian journalists through Skype, said he fled India in 2014 in light of the fact that he felt compromised after the executing of his colleagues.

How were the EVMs hacked?

Shuja, who said he is looking for political haven in the US, asserted the telecom monster Reliance Jio helped the BJP to get low-recurrence signs to hack the EVMs. He gave no evidence to back up his case.

Be that as it may, Jio was not in activity in 2014 and had propelled its administrations in September 2016.

Shuja, who made a shudder, likewise claimed that other than the BJP, the SP, BSP, AAP and Congress, as well, are engaged with the gear of the EVMs. There was no prompt response from any of these gatherings.

He was exhibited at the public interview held under the aegis of the Indian Journalists’ Association (Europe).

He said the BJP would have won the ongoing Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh Assembly decisions if his group hadn’t captured the supposed endeavors by the saffron gathering to hack the “transmissions” in these states.

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Mahagathbandhan an alliance of corruption, negativity, instability: PM Modi

Leaders from over a dozen opposition parties gathered in Kolkata Saturday and vowed to put up a united fight in the coming Lok Sabha elections and oust Modi from power
Narendra Modi

Taking a dig at the Opposition’s show of unity during a rally in Kolkata, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said their “mahagathbandhan” (grand alliance) was an alliance of corruption, negativity and instability.

The Opposition was staring at a defeat in forthcoming elections and looking for excuses ahead of their impending loss and thus are vilifying electronic voting machines, Modi said, addressing BJP’s booth-level workers through video-conference.

Leaders from over a dozen opposition parties gathered in Kolkata Saturday and vowed to put up a united fight in the coming Lok Sabha elections and oust Modi from power.

Several opposition leaders at the rally demanded the use of ballot papers instead of EVMs which they said were the source of “all sorts of malpractices”.

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