New Delhi: Aam Adami Party (AAP) convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Monday challenged the Election Commission that EVMs can be tampered with, asking it to give him EVMs, and he will read and rewrite the machines in 72 hours in presence of EC's experts and camera.
"Give us 72 hours... I will reveal the software, and tell you how it can be tempered with," he said.
Kejriwal also demanded that the upcoming MCD voting in New Delhi be conducted on paper ballots.
"There is no other option but paper ballots. Globally, it is known that the machines can be tampered with," he said, adding that's why most of the developed countries still used paper ballots.
Launching into his diatribe against the EC, Kejriwal said: "A particular machine showed BJP winning and now even the EC has accepted that the machine had come from UP," adding that as per law these machines cannot be used before April 26.
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Predicating his allegations on machines that malfunctioned, Kejriwal wondered if there were "many such machines".
Demanding the EC make all the machine-related details public, Kejriwal questioned "why all the EVMs were coming from Uttar Pradesh", where the elections were recently held, and the BJP won with flying colours.
Earlier in the day, AAP had accused the Election Commission of siding with the BJP, and not functioning as an independent body. “EC is not behaving like a neutral body. They are behaving like an ally of the BJP,” AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj had said.
The AAP-led delegation had on Saturday registered its displeasure with EVMs, after a machine in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind dispensed only the BJP slips no matter what button was pressed.
However, rubbishing their allegations, the EC had asked the Aam Aadmi Party to introspect their Punjab performance instead of levelling allegations.
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