While heated discussion over the authenticity of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) continues, the leader of the YSR Congress Party, Yogendra Jagan Mohan Reddy, urged the shift to practice paper-based voting in the electoral process.
Reddy’s comments were made when his party was significantly defeated in the recent Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh, where the BJP-led NDA alliance came out victorious largely.
The work from which the quote was extracted is a post made by Reddy on X (former Twitter), in which the author writes that “ just as justice should not only be served but should also appear to have been served, so should democracy not only prevail but must appear to be prevalent undoubtedly. Reddy continued to note that in
“Electoral practices across the world in almost every developed democracy, paper ballots are used not EVMs,”
Reddy’s assertion is well summarized by various sentiments echoed by the leaders of the INDIA Opposition bloc, which has been expressing doubts about the accuracy of the EVMs and their possible vulnerability to manipulation.
The Election Commission, however, has continued to assert that the system of voting through EVM is secure at the moment to technician interference. Yellen’s words may add woes for the ruling BJP in Parliament, as the RCP leader now has many Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members.
