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| Votes matter not EVMs | | | Aam Aadmi Party sweeping assembly polls in New Delhi should serve as an eye-opener for the political parties that question the credibility of Election Commission of India soon after any polls end.
Soon after the polling ended in the National Capital many AAP leaders started expressing concern over the safety and security of the Electronic Voting Machines. Some even said that the BJP is in power in the Centre and it can get the EVMs changed so strict vigil should be maintained around the "Strong Rooms" where the EVMs were kept.
Results of the Delhi elections have driven home a point that the people who point fingers towards the ECI and doubt its integrity are nothing but mere propagandists. These critics should realize that this time around EVMs didn't do any favour to the AAP. People had voted for the party and it won. Had the people note voted for the AAP candidates party would not have emerged victorious that too with such a huge margin winning 62 out of 70 seats.
In 2019 general elections AAP couldn't even win a single Lok Sabha seat in Delhi. All the seven seats were won by the BJP. That time lot of hue and cry was raised by the AAP leaders about the functioning of the EVMs. Some leaders after getting exasperated had even alleged all the votes which were cast went into BJP's kitty as the machines were fixed. Someone needs to ask these leaders whether AAP's win just within a few months after the parliamentary elections was also a fixed match? Or is it a genuine mandate of the masses.
The Election Commission if India (ECI) is an independent institution and politicians should stop playing politics over it. The political parties which lose the elections should accept their defeat gracefully and stop blaming the ECI for it. Such parties should introspect rather than finding scapegoats to shift the blame for their failure.
The EVMs have revolutionized the entire voting process and have made the election process extremely transparent. After losing the elections many parties across the country in the past have blamed the EVMs for their defeat and not their own shortcomings. Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading his party to an empathic win in 2019 Lok Sabha polls had led to defeated political parties launch a massive propaganda against the ECI. But these parties have had to eat a humble pie as the results of the assembly elections held in different States after the general elections have not gone in favour of the BJP. |
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