If EVMs not 'fixed' before LS polls, BJP can win over 400 seats: Sam Pitroda
The Hindu
Congress leader Sam Pitroda raises concerns over EVMs, calls for trust rebuilding before 2024 elections. Opp. INDIA bloc decides not to project PM candidate.
Raising concerns over electronic voting machines, Congress leader Sam Pitroda on December 28 said the BJP can win more than 400 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections if issues associated with EVMs are not "fixed".
The elections will be about deciding the destiny of India, he told PTI-Video in an interview.
While the Election Commission has always dismissed apprehensions over EVMs and also held hackathons to clear any doubts, some opposition leaders, including from Congress, have been repeatedly raising the issue of EVMs allegedly being open to manipulation.
Many in the Congress have also asserted, including after the recent assembly polls in which the party lost some key heartland states, that they trust these machines. However, the Congress and other opposition parties have been demanding 100% Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) and that the slips should be given to voters rather than falling into boxes.
Congress leader Mr. Pitroda also said that his recent comments on the Ram temple in Ayodhya were "twisted" and asserted that religion is a personal matter and should not be mixed with politics.
He was quoted in reports as saying it bothers him that the entire nation is hung up on the Ram temple.
On Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's upcoming Manipur-to-Mumbai Bharat Nyay Yatra ahead of the polls, Mr. Pitroda said, "The next election is about the future of India. What kind of nation we want to build."
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