Citing a video of EVMs being found in a car allegedly owned by a BJP leader in Assam, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the EC needs to act decisively against such complaints.
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Videos of private vehicles transporting EVMs show up everytime there's an election: Priyanka
The vehicle in question is owned by BJP leader Krishnendu Pal
Serious re-evaluation of use of EVMs needs to be carried out by all national parties: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has raised questions over the management of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in poll-bound states. A serious re-evaluation of the use of EVMs needs to be carried out by all national parties, the Congress leader said in a tweet.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was reacting to a video shot by a Guwahati-based journalist. The video suggests that EVMs were being transported in a private vehicle allegedly owned by a BJP candidate.
In the video shot by scribe Atanu Bhuyan, it is being claimed that locals caught EVMs being transported in a private vehicle owned by BJP leader Krishnendu Paul. Paul is the party's candidate from Patharkandi assembly constituency.
Reacting to the video, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said in a series of tweets, "The fact is that too many such incidents are being reported and nothing is being done about them."
While urging the Election Commission to start acting decisively on complaints of this nature, the Congress general secretary also said that such incidents have a few things in common.
"The vehicles usually belong to BJP candidates or their associates, videos are taken as one-off incidents and dismissed as aberrations, BJP uses its media machinery to accuse those who exposed the videos as sore losers," the Congress leader said listing some similarities.
On the campaign trail in Assam on Friday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is slated to address three public meetings in the poll-bound state.
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