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BJP leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad and Kangana Ranaut powerfully defended Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) successful Lok Sabha, dismissing calls to instrumentality to ballot papers arsenic a determination backward to booth capturing. They highlighted tribunal validations for EVMs and the Election Commission's situation for parties to hack them. Ranaut criticized the opposition's defeatist cognition and disruptive parliamentary behavior.
NEW DELHI: With respective absorption members pushing for reverting to the aged ballot insubstantial strategy successful elections, BJP MP and erstwhile Union instrumentality curate Ravi Shankar Prasad connected Wednesday deed back, saying it would mean going backmost to the days of booth capturing.Participating successful a statement inthe Lok Sabha connected 'election reforms', Prasad said determination are astatine slightest 2 twelve Supreme Court and precocious tribunal judgments validating the usage of physics voting machines (EVMs). The govt has repeatedly ruled retired going backmost to the ballot insubstantial strategy arsenic EVMs person made the predetermination process faster and safer, helium added.Prasad recalled that the Election Commission had invited parties to hack EVMs successful its presence, but nary turned up.
"Now they are raising a hue and outcry (against EVMs)," helium said.Prasad lashed retired astatine the Congress for levelling allegations of 'vote chori' up of the Bihar elections, noting that "not 1 plea" was received to cheque the EVMs aft the caller authorities elections.On allegations of EVM tampering, different BJP subordinate Kangana Ranaut said Congress politicians were unwilling to judge electoral defeats. "Let maine archer the Congress radical that the Prime Minister does not hack EVMs, helium hacked people's hearts".
She mocked demands for a instrumentality to the insubstantial ballot system, calling it an "outdated relic of different era". Ranaut besides took connected the absorption members for repeatedly disrupting Parliament.
She said watching them often felt "traumatic", adding that the MPs had repeatedly "jumped into the well, shouted 'SIR, SIR'' created a spectacle, tried intimidation and misbehaved successful each imaginable way"."May be, barring the past 2 oregon 3 days, they did not fto the House tally astatine all. We are representatives of the people; we travel present to learn, particularly arsenic caller MPs," she said, accusing the Opposition MPs of turning each league into theatre.
