Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has dismissed INDIA ally Congress’s vehement objection to Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), opening another point of friction with the INDIA Bloc ally.
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during an interview with PTI, in New Delhi,(PTI)
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during an interview with PTI, in New Delhi,(PTI)
After its loss in the Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly polls, the Congress has expressed doubts about the EVM’s infallibility and the election outcome. It has demanded a return to the paper ballot.
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Abdullah said that one can’t accept election results when it’s a win, and blame EVMs when it’s a loss.
“When you get a hundred plus members of Parliament using the same EVMs, and you celebrate that as sort of a victory for your party, you can’t then a few months later turn around and say… we don’t like these EVMs because now the election results aren’t going the way we would like them to,” Abdullah said in an interview with PTI.
He said parties should not contest elections if they do not trust the voting mechanism.
