New Delhi, May 11: The Aam Aadmi Party protested outside the Election Commission in New Delhi on Thursday demanding that VVPAT machines be used in all future elections. AAP leader Gopal Rai was leading the protest and said that Election Commission must give them an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) to show how it could be tampered with. Here are the two demands that the AAP workers protesting at the EC office made:
Link EVMs to VVPAT machines: The AAP leaders demanded that the EVMs in all future elections be linked to VVPAT machines . They said that it must be made sure that the tally of the EVM matches with that of the paper trail.
Give us EVMs: A day after the AAP demonstrated inside the Delhi Assembly as to how EVMs could be hacked, the EC in its statement said that the machine used by the party was a duplicate one. The AAP has now demanded that the EC gives them their EVM to demonstrate how it can be hacked.
The protest comes at a time with the AAP is being hit by corruption allegations. Suspended AAP MLA Kapil Mishra on Wednesday began his hunger strike, and asserted that he would not end his agitation until the party leaders disclose details of the funding for their foreign tours. On Thursday, Mishra said that he will go to Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) and divulge more details in the Water Tanker scam.
Kapil Mishra has lodged three FIRs against Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal and other AAP leaders with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with various corruption charges against them.
Earlier on Tuesday, AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj demonstrated how Electronic Voting Machines can be hacked as he carried out permutations and combinations on a dummy EVM inside the Delhi Assembly. Bhardwaj, an engineer-turned-politician, carried out a mock demonstration and an election day presentation and explained how a ‘secret code’ was used by a party to tamper the whole voting and counting procedure. AAP MLA Alka Lamba also questioned as to why the Election Commission was not open to EVMs being tested by scientists.
