AAP writes to EC demanding verification of paper trail

New Delhi: AAP national secretary Pankaj Gupta made a representation to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday stating that there was a "clear and irrefutable evidence of manipulation of results" at polling booths in the Punjab Assembly elections. AAP alleged that the results of all polling booths where VVPAT were used be cross-verified with the paper trail so that the cloud looming over the use of EVMs was settled and the faith of the common man in the electoral process was restored. In the letter submitted to the ECI, AAP stated, “After an analysis of booth-wise voting pattern, we have concluded that there has been a large-scale rigging through tampering of EVMs.” TNS