EVMs hacked to help BJP: Congress to Election Commission
The Congress on Wednesday demanded a thorough probe into “discrepancies” found in some electronic voting machines (EVMs) during the counting of votes of the Haryana Assembly polls and demanded that such EVMs should be sealed and secured pending the inquiry.
A delegation of top Congress leaders comprising former CMs Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Ashok Gehlot and AICC leaders KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Ajay Maken and Pawan Khera, besides Haryana Congress chief Udai Bhan, met with top Election Commission officials here.
The delegation handed over a memorandum to the officials along with specific complaints from various constituencies in Haryana. The leaders alleged “glaring discrepancies” related to some EVMs in the Haryana polls and urged the EC to conduct a probe.
They alleged there were at least 20 such complaints, including seven in writing, from as many Assembly constituencies, with many referring to EVMs functioning at 99 per cent battery capacity whereas the average EVMs were found to be operating at 60 to 70 per cent battery capacity during counting.
